Nikki Crowley, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, has been awarded $1.6M to study the neurobiology of binge alcohol drinking.
Penn State biologist receives NIH grant to help unlock biology of binge drinking
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Dark matter detector completes startup operations
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The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has completed its initial run and is now the most sensitive dark matter detector to date.
Could we eavesdrop on interstellar communications that pass through our solar system?
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A team of Penn State graduate students is looking for interstellar communication signals that might be taking advantage of the Sun.
Super-resolution imaging helps identify new proteins associated with neuronal MPS structures
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Determining the structure of small RNAs
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A new method allows researchers to determine the structure and abundance of transfer RNAs in living cells.
Grad student awarded grant to study adolescent binge drinking with biology professor
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Hubble Finds Isolated Black Hole Roaming Our Milky Way Galaxy
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided, for the first time, strong evidence for a lone black hole drifting through interstellar space.
Climate-associated genetic switches found in plants
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Conditional, climate-associated genetic switches--riboSNitches--that can alter RNA structure have been experimentally validated in Arabidobsis.
Theory and Application
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Penn State statistician Nicole Lazar studies theoretical foundations of statistical inference and applies them to the analysis of functional
Why Does Our Memory Decline as We Age, and Could It Be Reversible?
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Janine Kwapis, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, studies the molecular mechanisms of memory formation.