Life Sciences

Eberly College of Science Co-op Student of the Year Named
Khan Selected as Student Marshal for Eberly College of Science
Novel Technique Offers New Look at Ancient Diets
Scale-sensitive fractal analysis. a-e, Relative area is calculated by dividing the area of a surface, calculated using triangles of a given scale in a virtual tiling algorithm (a, b, c), by the projected area of the surface (d). Relative area can then be plotted against scale in a log-log plot (e). Asfc30 is a scale-sensitive measure of roughness and is the slope of the steepest part of the curve fitted to the plot of relative area over scale, multiplied by -1,000.
Exercise Helps Recovery from Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
Andrea Mastro
New Tumor-Suppressor Gene Discovered
The eye of a fly into whose genes the researchers inserted both a mats gene and a wts gene, whose protein products join structurally at the molecular level to form a larger, more powerful protein complex.
Secret to Longevity in Tubeworms
Close-up photograph of the base of an aggregation of the symbiotic vestimentiferan tubeworm Lamellibrachia luymesi from a cold seep at 550 m depth in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Ian MacDonald, Texas A&M University
Scientists Discover How Climate Change Causes the Simultaneous Boom or Bust of Multiple Populations
credit: Peter J. Hudson, Penn State
Novel Sulfide-Binding Mechanism Found in Deep-Sea Tubeworms
This is an image of a group of the giant hydrothermal vent tubeworm, Riftia pachyptila, taken around 2500 m at 9ºN along the East Pacific Rise (Pacific Ocean).
Smidansky Selected as Student Marshal for Eberly College of Science
New Hydrothermal Vents Discovered as "South Pacific Odyssey" Research Begins
Hydrothermal venting though sulfide chimneys in the Lau Basin. Credit: Daniel Desbruyeres, IFREMER (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea)
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