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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

January 17, 2021

Where did COVID-19 come from?

January 15, 2021

How devastating could Brazil's 'super-covid' be? Study finds coronavirus overwhelmed the country, killing nearly 40% of hospitalized patients as fears grow its variant could ALREADY be in America
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January 15, 2021

Penn State researchers co-author book teaching 'Skills to Obstruct Pandemics'

January 14, 2021

COVID’s toll on smell and taste: what scientists do and don’t know

January 14, 2021

Coronavirus updates: COVID-19 reduces US life expectancy; Biden introduces spending plan; Pope Francis gets Pfizer vaccine

January 13, 2021

Could too much time between doses drive the coronavirus to outwit vaccines?

January 13, 2021

For first time, COVID-19 vaccinations around the U.S. near 1 million doses a day

January 12, 2021

Her State’s in a COVID Death Spiral. Biden Just Hired Her.
The researchers analyzed a 14-year United States Geological Survey data set of wild bee occurrences from more than 1,000 locations in Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C., specifically examining how different bee species and communities respond to land-use and climate factors. The image features a spring bee, one of the species (Andrena nida) the team studied. IMAGE: USGS BEE INVENTORY AND MONITORING LAB

January 12, 2021

Climate change reduces the abundance and diversity of wild bees, study finds
Only about half of fawns across the white-tailed deer's range, on average, live to see their first birthday, and predators such as coyotes, bears and bobcats have been blamed for that. But this research suggests that other factors such as disease and physiology may be more influential in very young fawn mortality than previously suspected. IMAGE: TESS GINGERY/PENN STATE

January 11, 2021

Levels of stress hormone in saliva of newborn deer fawns may predict mortality

January 09, 2021

As Coronavirus Mutates, the World Stumbles Again to Respond
A blood sample is taken from a Data 4 Action Project participant to test for the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. Antibodies detected in the blood indicate that the participant is likely to have been exposed to SARS-COV-2 in the past. IMAGE: BRENNAN R. DINCHER, PENN STATE

January 08, 2021

Students join research team examining the COVID-19 pandemic in Centre County

January 08, 2021

Are we at the beginning of the end of COVID-19? The tricky road to herd immunity, explained.

January 06, 2021

Smart Antibacterial Avoids Collateral Damage, Potential Blowback
A research team led by Scott Medina, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, has developed a small protein that can target a specific pathogen to attach to and destroy without harming good bacteria. IMAGE: THE MEDINA GROUP/PENN STATE

January 06, 2021

Resist the resistance: Fighting the good fight against bacteria

December 28, 2020

With COVID-19 vaccines arriving, life could return to ‘normal’ by summer … maybe