Life Sciences

Gong Chen Selected as Holder of the Verne M. Willaman Chair in the Life Sciences
Gong Chen
Short-Term Gene-Expression "Memory" is Inherited in Proteins Associated with DNA, New Research Finds
Three fluorescent images of yeast cells as they grow from two single cells (left) to a small cell cluster (right). The green color represents the expression of the HO gene. The red color at the bud neck is a marker for cell cycle. Credit: Bai lab, Penn State University
Temperature alters population dynamics of common plant pests
Tea tortrix moth on leaf Image: Hiroshi Suenaga, Kagoshima tea plantation
Arctic Sea-Ice Loss Has Widespread Effects on Wildlife
Credit: Jeff Kerby, Eric Post lab, Penn State University
Aquatic playground can turn water tanks into fish schools
Juvenile Atlantic salmon raised in tanks with hiding places and floating artificial plants showed signs of improved brain function and could better navigate mazes than the salmon reared in standard hatchery tanks. Image: Anne Gro Salvanes
Using interdisciplinary tools to find cure for human herpesvirus
Paired fluorescence and phase (white light) images of uninfected neurons (top and bottom left) and neurons infected with HSV (top and bottom right). As is clearly visible in the white light images, these neurons form dense networks of connections. Fluorescent dyes can be used to stain and highlight the individual filaments of these networks (top left) as well as to detect a specific viral protein expressed during HSV infection (top right). Image: Moriah Szpara
Ciera L. Johnson to Represent Penn State's Eberly College of Science as Student Marshal at Summer Commencement 2013
Student Marshal Johnson
Penn State Team Wins Department of Energy Poster Competition
Energy Poster Competition
Biologist investigates lasting ecological impacts of Deepwater Horizon oil spill
This photo, taken as part of a major research project led by Penn State Professor of Biology Charles Fisher, shows a reef formed by the coral species Lophelia pertusa at 450m below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico with an orange brisingid starfish in the foreground and a school of fish overhead. Credit: Image courtesy of Lophelia II 2010 Expedition, NOAA OER BOEM
Infectious Disease Research Gets a Boost from Websites, Blogs, and Social Media
An article by Marcel Salathé and his colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine describes a new field of research known as digital epidemiology. This field is of increasing importance for tracking outbreaks of infectious diseases such as the one caused by a novel coronavirus, pictured here. Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
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