Life Sciences

Gerhart-Hines Selected as Student Marshal for Eberly College of Science
Physics Gravity Model Applicable to Disease Spread
Ottar Bjornstad
Research Reveals Role of Gene in Infertility
A sample of the electron-microscope images obtained during research in the laboratory of Hong Ma at Penn State, showing the nucleus, synaptonemal complex, and other structures within the cell.
Genetic Barrier to Self-Pollination Identified
The S-locus controls the specificity of the self-incompatibility interactions between pollen and pistil. Matching of the S-allele carried by the pollen with one of the two S-alleles carried by the pistil results in the growth arrest of the pollen tube in the style. Only pollen tubes that carry a different S-allele from the S-allele of the pistil will be able to grow down the style to the ovary to achieve fertilization.
Small, Cold, and Hungry: Ultra-Small Microbes from a 120,000-Year-Old Greenland-Glacier Ice Sample
Material from a 120,000-year-old Greenland Glacier ice sample showing micro-microbes (small white oblong forms) and larger materials.
Penn State Sophomore Wins Award for Cancer Research
Penn State Junior Wins Awards for Cancer Research
Penn State Senior Wins Fulbright Fellowship for Research in Germany
First Step Made Toward Comprehensive Use of Human Genome for Fighting Human Diseases
Wojciech Makalowski
Team Including Penn State Researchers Announces Completed Gene Sequencing of Laboratory Rat
Photo credit: Martin Krzywinski
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