New Tumor-Suppressor Gene Discovered
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The eye of a fly into whose genes the researchers inserted both a mats gene and a wts gene, whose protein products join structurally at the molecular level to form a larger, more powerful protein complex.
Gerhart-Hines Selected as Student Marshal for Eberly College of Science
Genetic Barrier to Self-Pollination Identified
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The S-locus controls the specificity of the self-incompatibility interactions between pollen and pistil.  Matching of the S-allele carried by the pollen with one of the two S-alleles carried by the pistil results in the growth arrest of the pollen tube in the style.  Only pollen tubes that carry a different S-allele from the S-allele of the pistil will be able to grow down the style to the ovary to achieve fertilization.
Small, Cold, and Hungry: Ultra-Small Microbes from a 120,000-Year-Old Greenland-Glacier Ice Sample
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Material from a 120,000-year-old Greenland Glacier ice sample showing micro-microbes (small white oblong forms) and larger materials.
Penn State Sophomore Wins Award for Cancer Research
Penn State Junior Wins Awards for Cancer Research
Penn State Senior Wins Fulbright Fellowship for Research in Germany
Team Including Penn State Researchers Announces Completed Gene Sequencing of Laboratory Rat
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Photo credit: Martin Krzywinski
Discoveries Reveal That Gene Regulation Is Bipolar
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In this composite image by Greg Grieco, Frank Pugh holds a glass slide with a DNA microarray (magnified to fill the image background)
Technology Developed at Penn State Licensed to Pharmaceutical Company
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