Moriah Szpara awarded Priscilla Schaffer Memorial Award
Moriah Szpara
Discovery rewriting the evolutionary history of the nervous system
A whole Drosophila larva expressing a fluorescent protein (red) in a subset of its sensory neurons. Credit: Melissa Rolls, Penn State.
Gates Foundation grant boosts malaria research program: Supplemental $4.7 million will aid drug development to accelerate malaria eradication
A false-color electron micrograph of the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite infecting a mosquito. Image courtesy of Margaret Shear, Wikipedia
Stone Memorial Lecture set for February 27
Paul Ahlquist
Grant to help pave a big data highway to explore genome, enhance health
Ernest C. Pollard Lecture Set for February 13
Eva Nogales
Three Eberly College of Science faculty members elected as Fellows of the AAAS
Kathleen Postle, Paul Babitzke, Jorge Sofo
Marker Lectures in Genetic Engineering Scheduled for January 23 and 24
William Jacobs, Jr.
How to make a motor neuron: Mechanisms underlying direct programming of stem cells could eventually lead to cell-replacement therapies
Induced motor neurons created by direct programming from mouse embryonic stem cells. A team of scientists has analyzed the changes that take place in the cells during reprogramming, uncovering a dynamic multi-step process. Credit: Esteban Mazzoni, NYU
New Partnership to Discover Treatment Options for Tuberculosis
Ken Keiler with student in lab
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