Life Sciences

Decoding Human Genes is the Goal of a New Open-Source Encyclopedia
Hardison repairing dna
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
Butterfly Study Reveals Traits and Genes Associated with Establishment of New Populations
A Glanville fritillary butterfly. Credit: James Marden, Penn State
Hedges Awarded the Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Life and Health Sciences
Blair Hedges pictured in his lab. Credit: Jessica Knuth. Permission required for re-use.
Stephenson Receives the Distinguished Professor Title
Stephenson Receives the Distinguished Professor Title
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
Six College of Science Faculty Members Named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Martin Bollinger Jr., Donald Bryant, Hong Ma, James Rosenberger, and Alex Wolszczan
"Epidemic: Infectious Disease on a Changing Planet" is Focus of 2011 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science
Picture of audience for one of the 2007 Frontiers lectures
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