Scientists Recreate Brain Cells from Skin Cells to Study Schizophrenia Safely
Scientists at Penn State University, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and other institutions have developed a method for recreating a schizophrenic patient's own neurons in the laboratory. In this microscopic image, nuclei originated from human cells are stained red and stem-cell-derived newborn neurons are stained green. Credit: Gong Chen Laboratory, Penn State University
New Genetic Study Helps to Solve Darwin's Mystery about the Ancient Evolution of Flowering Plants
Amborella trichopoda, a flowering plant. Amborella trichopoda is a basal angiosperm and the earliest surviving branch of the angiosperm tree of life. This plant was included in the Ancestral Angiosperm Genome Project. Credit: Sangtae Kim
Search for Advanced Materials Aided by Discovery of Hidden Symmetries in Nature
A lattice composed of columns of squares that represent repeating molecular structures, one rotated clockwise (colored blue) and another counterclockwise (colored orange) with respect to each other. Credit: Penn State University, Gopalan lab, Ryan Haislmaier
Butterfly Study Reveals Traits and Genes Associated with Establishment of New Populations
A Glanville fritillary butterfly. Credit: James Marden, Penn State
New Kind of Optical Fiber Developed
Mimicking Photosynthesis May Hold Key to Cheap Hydrogen for Fuel
Mimicking Photosynthesis May Hold Key to Cheap Hydrogen for Fuel. Credit: EERE, courtesy Wikimedia Commons
Multiple Approaches Necessary to Tackle World's Food Problems
"We need to adapt current crops to higher temperatures and less water and we need to domesticate plants that have evolved to grow at high temperatures and in salty soils," says Fedoroff. Credit: Cgoodwin, via Wikimedia Commons
Invasive Plants Can Create Positive Ecological Change
Credit: Tomás Carlo, Penn State
Largest Color Image of the Sky Ever Made is Released by Team that Includes Penn State Astronomers
This illustration shows the wealth of information on scales both small and large available in the SDSS-III's new image. Credit: M. Blanton and the SDSS-III
Penn State Participates in the Release of The Largest Color Image of the Sky Ever Made
This illustration shows the wealth of information on scales both small and large available in the SDSS-III's new image. Credit: M. Blanton and the SDSS-III
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