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Researchers found that vaccine programs in low- and middle-income countries have prevented 37 million deaths in the last 20 years – 36 million of which have been in children under age five. IMAGE: CDC, UNSPLASH

February 02, 2021

Vaccines against 10 diseases prevented 37 million deaths in last 20 years

February 01, 2021

The Mystery Of India's Plummeting COVID-19 Cases
Research suggests that honey bees have a "goldilocks" range of summer weather conditions that raises their probability of winter survival.IMAGE: SWEETAHOLIC VIA PIXABAY

February 01, 2021

Summer weather conditions influence winter survival of honey bees
Called multiseriate cortical sclerenchyma by the researchers — or MCS — the phenotype is characterized by small cells with thick walls just beneath the surface of the roots, as shown by these images captured by the researchers using laser ablation tomography. Roots with the MCS genotype have a greater concentration of lignin — an organic polymer that lends rigidity. IMAGE: HANNAH SCHNEIDER/PENN STATE

February 01, 2021

Newly discovered trait helps plants grow deeper roots in dry, compacted soils
The Energy and Environmental Sustainability Laboratories (EESL) announced its 2020-2021 funding opportunity for Penn State students. The program, called EESL Green, is now accepting proposals for funding that will support energy and environment, materials and fermentation laboratory research. IMAGE: KEVIN SLIMAN

February 01, 2021

Student funding available for laboratory research

January 31, 2021

Americans can’t cut back on salt. One likely reason: Packaged and prepared foods are filled with it.

January 29, 2021

Take Note: Epidemiologist Dr. Nita Bharti On Safety And Effectiveness Of New COVID-19 Vaccines

January 29, 2021

A Simple, Inexpensive Change Foils Mushroom Phorid Flies
The Ecology Institute announced a funding competition for its annual Flower Grant that will take place as virtual pitch slams on March 9 and 10, 2021. IMAGE: BRENNA BUCK

January 28, 2021

Ecology Institute to hold pitch slam for funding competition
IMAGE: ADOBE STOCK

January 28, 2021

Infants exposed to second-hand smoke may develop behavior problems later in life

January 28, 2021

Oh Good, Trillions of Cicadas Are Coming
Matt Ferrari IMAGE: PENN STATE

January 28, 2021

Two members of Eberly College honored for extraordinary efforts during pandemic
Yuguo “Leo” Lei joined the Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering as an associate professor and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences as the inaugural faculty director of the Sartorius Cell Culture Facility. IMAGE: PROVIDED BY YUGUO LEI

January 27, 2021

Therapeutic cell researcher joins biomedical engineering and Huck Institutes

January 22, 2021

Biden sticks to vaccine goals nearly met by his predecessor

January 22, 2021

Interview with Dr. Maciej Boni
A new cryo-EM study shows that the enzyme that makes RNA from a DNA template (RNA polymerase) is altered to slow the production of ribosomal RNA in the bacteria E. coli. The FEI Titan Krios Cryo-electron microscope at the Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences (left). Cryo-EM image of the RNA polymerase and DNA complex (greyscale, right) with color insets of the 3-D reconstructions of the RNA polymerase closed complex (top) and the RNA polymerase and promoter complex with DksA (bottom). IMAGE: MURAKAMI LABORATORY, PENN STATE

January 22, 2021

Regulating the ribosomal RNA production line
Sartorius Stedim Biotech is a leading international supplier of products and services that enable the biopharmaceutical industry to develop and manufacture drugs safely and efficiently. IMAGE: ©SARTORIUS AG. IMAGE PROVIDED COURTESY OF SARTORIUS AG

January 21, 2021

Sartorius Stedim Biotech’s $1.5M gift creates cell culture facility
Penn State entomologist Christina Grozinger, who studies the factors causing global population declines in honey bees and other pollinators, was named recipient of the 2021 National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences. IMAGE: COURTESY OF CHRISTINA GROZINGER

January 21, 2021

Grozinger receives National Academy's Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
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

January 20, 2021

Two Ecology Grad Students Win College of Ag Sci Grants
Bees gather at the entrance to their nest in an abandoned shed

January 20, 2021

Feral colonies provide clues for enhancing honey bee tolerance to pathogens
Andy Cole

January 19, 2021

Arts and Architecture appoints interim head of landscape architecture
The synthesis of the potent antibiotic thiostrepton uses a radical SAM protein TsrM, whose crystal structure is shown at left while bound to an iron-sulfur cluster and cobalamin. New images of this crystal structure allowed researchers from Penn State to infer the chemical steps during the antibiotic’s synthesis (right), as a methyl group moves from a molecule called S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) to the cobalamin in TsrM to the substrate tryptophan. IMAGE: BOOKER LAB, PENN STATE

January 18, 2021

Synthesis of potent antibiotic follows unusual chemical pathway
Blood flow and neural activity greatly increase during both non-rapid eye movement sleep and rapid eye movement sleep stages, according to Penn State researchers. IMAGE: ISTOCK/@HANK GREBE

January 18, 2021

Increased blood flow during sleep tied to critical brain function

January 18, 2021

With COVID Variant: Back to the Bubble? Press Pause? Doctors Weigh In