Wilson to Represent Eberly College of Science as Student Marshal
Better Way Found to Locate DNA Packing Proteins in Genome
Methane-Belching Bugs Inspire a New Theory of the Origin of Life on Earth
More that twenty years ago, Penn State's James G. Ferry first isolated Methanosarcina acetivorans from anaerobic sediment beneath a kelp bed. Ferry and Christopher House, also at Penn State, have helped uncover the biochemistry this microbe uses to make vinegar out of carbon monoxide. Now they suggest that this a primitive version of this unique biochemistry may have fueled the metabolism of the first life forms on earth.
Undersea Microbes Active but Living on the Slow Side
Scientists Sequence DNA of Woolly Mammoth
Large numbers of tusks in the permafrost museum in Khatanga demonstrate the abundance mammoth once had in the Northern hemisphere. Credit: Debi Poinar, McMaster University
Eberly College of Science Co-op Student of the Year Named
Eberly College of Science Co-op Student of the Year Named
Exercise Helps Recovery from Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
Andrea Mastro
New Tumor-Suppressor Gene Discovered
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
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