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Muscle wasting affects approximately 80% of cancer patients. Researchers at Penn State are investigating why this happens with a goal of informing the development of treatments. Credit: Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.

November 29, 2022

Muscle wasting severity linked to type, size and location of tumor in mice
In the research, 56 white leghorn hens were allocated to a series of dietary treatment groups receiving graded levels of the microalgae oil supplement for 28 days. By the end of the study, more than half of the birds receiving the highest level of supplementation entirely stopped laying eggs. Credit: GettyImages-wikoski. All Rights Reserved.

November 29, 2022

Too much of a good thing: Over-supplementation of chickens' diet backfires

November 24, 2022

Possibility of a “Tripledemic”? What Do the Experts Say and What Can Be Done?

November 24, 2022

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy May Increase ADHD-Like Symptoms In Children
Credit: Dan Lesher / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 22, 2022

New 'Life From All Angles' video features Sally Mackenzie’s epigenetics research
A course offered by Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences allowed students to learn about growing food in space. From left are Faith Warehime, Anne Clouse and Austin King. Credit: Estelle Couradeau / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 22, 2022

Students in College of Ag Sciences course support 'Plant the Moon' Challenge
2022 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award winners include, clockwise from top left, Fabien Grisé, associate research professor of astronomy and astrophysics; Kunyan Zhang, doctoral candidate in electrical engineering; Lin Wang, post-doctoral scholar in mechanical engineering; Aida Ebrahimi, Thomas and Sheila Roell Early Career Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering; Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and biomedical engineering (courtesy); Akhil Dodda, engineering science and mechanics doctoral student; and Nichole Wonderling, X-ray scattering manager, Materials Research Institute. Credit: Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

November 21, 2022

Materials Research Institute names 2022 Roy Award Winners
Pennsylvania stream impacted by acid mine drainage. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

November 21, 2022

New process developed to extract high purity rare earth element oxides
A new study by biologists at Penn State suggests that the gut microbiomes of warblers — like the northern parula pictured here — are influenced more by evolution than diet. Credit: Hans Toom/Pixabay. All Rights Reserved.

November 21, 2022

What shapes the composition of microbes in a warbler’s gut?
Christiansborg Palace is the seat of the Dutch Parliament where Bruce Logan will deliver his research talk. Credit: Adobe Stock. All Rights Reserved.

November 21, 2022

Penn State researcher to deliver renewable energy talk to Danish Parliament
Collaborators at the University of Colorado Boulder created a robotic wing made of plastic and cardboard laminate to study the mechanism by which fruit flies compensate for wing damage in flight. Credit: Provided by Kaushik Jayaram. All Rights Reserved.

November 18, 2022

Fruit flies use corrective movements to maintain stability after injury
Janna Maranas, Penn State professor of chemical engineering, died on Nov. 3 at the age of 57. Credit: Image provided by Dr. Janna Maranas's family. All Rights Reserved.

November 18, 2022

Engineering community mourns death of Professor Janna Maranas

November 17, 2022

Despite the collective rampage against spotted lanternflies, the pests are here to stay
Researchers found that bats disrupted by a lack of habitat and food move near humans in agricultural and urban areas, where they can spread Hendra virus to horses and then people. Credit: Vlad Kutepov, Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

November 17, 2022

To prevent next pandemic research suggests we need to restore wildlife habit
A multidisciplinary team found that a drug used to treat cholesterol could help neutralize off-target antibiotics and help prevent the development of antibiotic resistance. Credit: wildpixel/iStock. All Rights Reserved.

November 15, 2022

FDA-approved cholesterol medicine may help prevent antibiotic resistance
“Sometimes you have to run up a mountain to be able to see what some new opportunities are," said Tracy Langkilde, Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science. "And when you’re standing there at this beautiful lookout, it makes it all worth it.” Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

November 15, 2022

WATCH: Tracy Langkilde shares perspective on trail running and pursuing passions

November 14, 2022

Covid, gripe, RSV: a ‘triplademia’ que ameaça o planeta
Michael Axtell, holder of the Louis and Hedwig Sternberg Chair in Plant Biology. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

November 14, 2022

Michael Axtell named Louis and Hedwig Sternberg Chair in Plant Biology
A new statistical method called CLIMB provides a more efficient way to uncover biologically meaningful changes in genomic data that span multiple conditions—such as gene regulation across tissue types. CLIMB first conducts a series of pairwise analyses. Then, it starts to construct “association vectors” that include all possible combinations of a subject’s status across each condition. Then, CLIMB eliminates any combination from the association vector that the pairwise analyses in Step 1 do not support. Finally, CLIMB performs a joint analysis, clustering together subjects that follow the same pattern across conditions. Credit: Qunhua Li research group / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

November 14, 2022

New statistical method improves genomic analyses
In the Math for Sustainability general education course—currently taught by Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics Russ deForest—students learn a variety of quantitative skills that they can use to be active and engaged citizens. Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 14, 2022

Using sustainability to make introductory STEM courses meaningful

November 12, 2022

Climate change prompts Pa. farmers to adapt crops and businesses
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November 11, 2022

Penn State community grieves loss of biomathematician Howard Weiss
Nikki Crowley Credit: Penn State / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 10, 2022

New research on effects of binge drinking earns biologist early career award
Wenyu Tu, co-author on the eLife paper and doctoral student in neuroscience in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, sets up a functional MRI experiment. Functional MRI was used in conjunction with neuronal electrophysiology to identify a link between respiration and neural activity changes. Credit: Kelby Hochreither/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

November 10, 2022

Breathing may measurably modulate neural responses across brain, study finds