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Biochemistry and molecular biology students taking BMB 490 write down their observations of cells while in the tissue culture room.IMAGE: EMILY BELL, PENN STATE

April 01, 2021

A new approach to undergraduate research

April 01, 2021

Do You Have Nafas, the Elusive Gift That Makes Food Taste Better?
IMAGE: GETTY IMAGES ILYA LUKICHEV

March 30, 2021

Origins of an outbreak
Researchers have developed a new statistical tool that can accurately estimate the replicability of a study, thus eliminating the need to duplicate the work. The method will be particularly useful for large genome-wide association studies. IMAGE: NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, UNSPLASH

March 30, 2021

New statistical method eases data reproducibility crisis
Mangold et al. demonstrate that HSV-1 infection induces strain-specific transcriptional differences in infected human neurons. The scanning electron micrograph (5.77K magnification) shows a fully differentiated human SH-SY5Y neuronal cell, as used in this study. IMAGE: COLLEEN MANGOLD, PENN STATE

March 29, 2021

Exploring variations in herpes virus symptoms
Szpara headshot

March 29, 2021

Penn State virologist Szpara to co-host COVID-19 vaccine education town halls

March 27, 2021

A mysterious ‘worm tornado’ invaded this N.J. sidewalk. Here’s why.

March 27, 2021

Can’t Take the Heat? A Taste for Spicy Foods Can Be Learned.
Images of skulls from Japanese museum collections. Top row shows two individual with blackened teeth. Bottom row shows individuals who did not have blackened teeth. IMAGE: KEN-ICHI SHINODA, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE, TSUKUBA, JAPAN

March 25, 2021

Ancient oral biome points to overall health
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

March 25, 2021

Three Huck Students Collect Grad School Awards

March 25, 2021

The Search for Animals That Could Carry the Next Deadly Virus
Mingfu Shao, the Charles K. Etner Early Career Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science IMAGE: PENN STATE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

March 24, 2021

New computational methods allow for accurate determination of gene expression

March 19, 2021

The 2021 Runner’s World Fitness Awards
A new antibiotic compound clears infection of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in mice in a single oral dose, according to a new study.IMAGE: ALISSA ECKERT/CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

March 19, 2021

New antibiotic clears multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in mice in single dose

March 18, 2021

Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible
honey bee on a flower

March 18, 2021

Master Gardeners to celebrate pollinator-friendly garden program milestone

March 17, 2021

How Much Should We Really Worry About the Coronavirus Variants?
Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Biology and J. Lloyd and Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair of Epidemiology at Penn State, has been elected to the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters. In this photo taken in 2017, he was a visiting professor at the Marshall Center for Infectious Disease at the University of Western Australia. IMAGE: PENN STATE

March 17, 2021

Ottar Bjørnstad elected to Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
Researchers have developed a novel Strep zoo diagnostic test that can distinguish between virulent and avirulent strains of the pathogen and provide results in as little as four hours, giving swine producers a better chance to keep a potentially deadly disease outbreak from spreading.IMAGE: ANN TAYLOR-SCHMIDT

March 17, 2021

Tool can provide swine producers with early diagnosis of often-fatal 'Strep zoo'
Matt Ferrari IMAGE: PENN STATE

March 17, 2021

Matt Ferrari named director of Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Ganesh Anand, associate professor of chemistry. IMAGE: PROVIDED

March 15, 2021

Lab Bench to Commercialization grant recipients announced
A mantid eating a spotted lanternfly

March 15, 2021

A wing and a prayer: Chickens, praying mantises among likely lanternfly enemies
Shaun Mahony, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. IMAGE: PENN STATE

March 11, 2021

Biochemistry and molecular biology professor receives NSF CAREER Award
Melanie McReynolds IMAGE: PENN STATE

March 11, 2021

Eberly college welcomes alumna Melanie McReynolds as new faculty member