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The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Science has awarded a five-year, $1.9 million Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award to Jordan Bisanz, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, to improve understanding of how complex communities of microbes impact human health. Here, Bisanz and gradate student Daniela Betancurt-Anzola inspect microbe cultures in the lab. Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. Creative Commons

February 05, 2024

$1.9M NIH grant to support research on impacts of the microbiome on human health
Researchers found that Zika virus induces cells to create connections, called tunneling nanotubes, that may enable the virus to replicate and spread from mother to fetus. Credit: Joyce Jose/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

February 05, 2024

How does Zika virus replicate and transmit from mother to fetus?

February 05, 2024

Edge habitats along roads and power lines may be key to conserving rare plants

February 05, 2024

Penn State finding could improve food safety
Using a new set of tools, an international research collaboration including scientists from Penn State, Rockefeller University and Johns Hopkins University have reconstructed genetic blueprints for 51 species

February 05, 2024

Researchers assemble 51 animal genomes using publicly accessible workflows
Newly identified protein, called GRP20, involved in processing genes before they are used to code for proteins, is required for proper flower development in the model plant species Arabidopsis. Top row shows wild-type flowers, which have four petals (P) and six stamens (S). Bottom row shows flowers from plants lacking GRP20 with variable numbers of petals and stamens, indicating that GRP20 is required for proper flower development. Credit: Jun Wang / Penn State. Creative Commons

February 02, 2024

Newly identified protein helps flowers develop all the right parts

February 02, 2024

Proteins in milk, not just fat, may help reduce oral burn from spicy food

February 02, 2024

Rare ancient tree discovery has scientists ‘gobsmacked’
Joanna “Jo” Setchell, professor of anthropology at Durham University in England, will deliver Penn State's 2024 Darwin Day lecture at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15 in the HUB-Robeson Center’s Freeman Auditorium. A light reception will immediately follow the lecture. Credit: Courtesy of Joanna Setchell. All Rights Reserved.

February 01, 2024

Noted anthropologist Joanna Setchell to deliver 2024 Darwin Day Lecture
Penn State’s NSF I-Corps Short Course is accepting applications for its virtual March cohort. The no-cost program helps researchers test a startup idea through customer interviews and educational programming on the lean startup methodology. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

February 01, 2024

Start up your research: Apply now for March I-Corps Short Course

February 01, 2024

The Monster Measles Outbreak in Europe Is a Warning
A new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the classic interpretation that fat is responsible for milk's ability to cut the burn caused by the chili extract capsaicin is an oversimplification. They found that protein content matters, too. Credit: Bryon Lippincott/Flickr. All Rights Reserved.

January 31, 2024

Proteins in milk — not just fat — may help reduce oral burn from spicy food
Wild lupine, a plant of conservation concern across most of its natural range in eastern North America, grows along a Pennsylvania roadside. Credit: Isabella Petitta. All Rights Reserved.

January 31, 2024

Edge habitats along roads and power lines may be key to conserving rare plants
Xiaogang Hu, right, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neurorehabilitation and associate professor of mechanical engineering, will lead a $4 million grant from the U. S. National Science Foundation to make robotic protheses more useful for people living with amputations. Long Meng, left, a postdoctoral scholar in Hu's lab, will participate in the research. Credit: Kate Myers/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

January 30, 2024

$4M grant funds project to make robotic prostheses more like biological limbs
Christina Grozinger, Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology and director of the Penn State Center for Pollinator Research Center, will serve on a new U.S. Department of Agriculture subcommittee on pollinators. Credit: Contributed photo. All Rights Reserved.

January 29, 2024

Penn State entomologists appointed to national committee on pollinator research
Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE) Director Bruce Logan, center, with four of the six IEE Research Award winners, from left: Adri van Duin, Donghai Wang, Estelle Couradeau and Laura Leites. Siela Maximova and Allyson Muth were unable to attend the event. Credit: Brenna Buck. All Rights Reserved.

January 29, 2024

Six researchers recognized with Institute of Energy and the Environment Awards
A tray of Agaricus bisporus, the common white button mushroom, growing in the Mushroom Research Center at Penn State. Pennsylvania grows almost two-thirds of all Agaricus produced in the United States. Credit: Patrick Mansell / Penn State. Creative Commons

January 29, 2024

Fungi into the future

January 27, 2024

QIAGEN Announces Partnership With Penn State University to Advance Microbiome Sciences

January 26, 2024

Qiagen announces partnership with Penn State University to advance microbiome sciences

January 25, 2024

Deadly Foodborne Bacteria Found To Hide From Sanitizers

January 25, 2024

QIAGEN announces partnership with Penn State University to advance microbiome sciences
Nora Margulis, left, and Anna Sigmon, right, after defending her thesis in Dec. 2022. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

January 25, 2024

Undergraduate research may contribute to COVID-19 treatments

January 25, 2024

QIAGEN announces partnership with Penn State University to advance microbiome sciences

January 25, 2024

Qiagen partners with Penn State to advance microbiome sciences