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September 12, 2024

Penn State professor part of team finding potential new way to treat Alzheimer's
Credit: Brennan Dincher / Penn State.

September 11, 2024

Three projects receive Huck Innovative and Transformational Seed Fund grants

September 11, 2024

Reversing Alzheimer’s Early Defects? Scientists Discover Key Treatment Target

September 11, 2024

Ditch popular snack duo that sees you eat almost twice the 'mindless' calories, scientists warn
New experimental technique developed by Penn State researchers helps uncover how certain proteins cooperate to bind to otherwise closed regions of the genome to facilitate cell differentiation and development. Illustration shows expanded view of chromosome from a cell at the upper left. The “pioneer factor” FOXA1 co-binds with AP-1, allowing FOXA1 to locate target sites in the genome with high specificity. Credit: Holly Godin/Bai Laboratory / Penn State.

September 10, 2024

Genomic pioneers collaborate to access the inaccessible

September 10, 2024

Best Solar Panels for Your Home in 2024
Vishal Singh, left, conducted this study in his lab, the Nutrition and Microbiome—Singh Lab, as part of a team that consisted of graduate research assistants, postdoctoral scholars, undergraduate students and collaborations with researchers from other departments in the University and outside of Penn State. Credit: Provided by Vishal Singh. All Rights Reserved.

September 09, 2024

Refined dietary fiber may increase risk for inflammatory bowel disease
The Student Health Center on Penn State's University Park campus. Credit: Patrick Mansell / Penn State. Creative Commons

September 09, 2024

Penn State community reminded to take COVID-19 precautions

September 08, 2024

Foliage forecasts are bullish, despite summer’s heat. Here’s what leaf peepers in Philly and elsewhere can expect.

September 06, 2024

Do flies vomit on our food and make us sick?
Promotional poster for “Caretelling: Stories to Sustain Ourselves,” an interdisciplinary group exhibition on display through December that explores the intersection of storytelling and caregiving through collaborative art-making, video installations and graphic narratives. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

September 05, 2024

Woskob Gallery to host workshop for exhibit exploring storytelling, caregiving
Study authors Olivia Leach, at the computer terminal, and Rachel Cottle, holding the breathing tube, pose in the environmental chamber used to study vulnerability to temperature and humidity. Credit: Provided by W. Larry Kenney . All Rights Reserved.

September 03, 2024

Older women more vulnerable to heat than their male peers, researchers find
Five new research collaborations between Penn State and minority-serving institutions selected to receive seed funding via the Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research program

August 29, 2024

Call for Submissions: Faculty course buyouts for large grant writing
The projects will investigate how microbiomes can affect disease dynamics in agriculture. Credit: Dan Meyers/Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

August 28, 2024

Research teams receive $1.1 million to study microbiomes in agriculture

August 28, 2024

Brain Scientists Finally Discover the Glue that Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime
Janine Kwapis Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

August 23, 2024

New CMIND director named

August 23, 2024

What links aging and disease? A growing body of research says it’s a faulty metabolism

August 22, 2024

What is a nonverbal learning disorder? Tim Walz’s son Gus’ condition, explained
Researchers discovered that by blocking a specific enzyme called indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1, or IDO1 for short, they could rescue memory and brain function in models that mimic Alzheimer’s disease. Pictured from right to left: Melanie Reynolds, Penn State’s Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Praveena Prasad, doctoral candidate at Penn State, Brenita Jenkins, lab manager and research scientist at Penn State. Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. Creative Commons

August 22, 2024

Cancer drug could treat early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, study shows
Kierstyn Higgins, a doctoral candidate in ecosystem science and management, using a backpack eDNA sampler to collect eDNA from stream water. The inset shows the unit's intake. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

August 22, 2024

NSF grant to fund novel study of environmental DNA fate in streams
A mining bee (Andrena sp.) climbs on a blueberry flower. The bee species was one spotted by volunteers through a program led by Penn State. Credit: Nash Turley / Penn State. Creative Commons

August 22, 2024

Volunteers record bee biodiversity and discover new species in Pennsylvania
The findings of a new study may help improve the understanding of how pathogens may be transmitted between wild and managed bees, according to researchers. Credit: Damien TUPINIER/Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

August 21, 2024

Honey bees may play role in spreading viruses to wild bumble bees

August 21, 2024

How U.S. Farms Could Start a Bird Flu Pandemic

August 20, 2024

Spotted Lanternfly Returns