The severe megafires in Australia burned of 34% of the foraging habitat of grey-headed flying foxes, which transmit several human viruses.
Australian megafires burn critical habitat of 'Vulnerable' virus-harboring bats
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Normal brain growth curves for children developed
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Penn State researchers have developed normalized growth curve charts for the brain.
Neglecting delays in outbreak response grossly underestimates epidemic severity
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Penn State researchers reveal that omitting delays in disease outbreak models can have serious consequences.
Fighting COVID with COVID
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Penn State researchers have designed a proof-of-concept therapeutic that could use the COVID-19 virus against itself.
National Institutes of Health funds neural engineering graduate training program
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Scientists resurrect 'forgotten' genus of algae living in marine animals
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Penn State biologists resurrected the genus of algae first described in the late 1800s.
Q&A with Scott Showalter and Emery Usher
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A Q&A with Penn State chemists describes how two proteins work together turn on and off the gene that codes for insulin.
A new class of functional elements in the human genome?
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Regions of human genome that form G4 structures are more common, more stable, and show signs of natural selection
Elusive mergers of black holes with neutron stars confirmed for first time
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For the first time, a research team including Penn State astronomers have detected a collision between a black hole and a neutron star.
Weird warbler reveals genetics of its mismatched colors
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A rare warbler hybrid with mismatched color traits allowed Penn State biologists to disentangle the genetic drivers behind these traits.