Life Sciences

Discoveries Reveal That Gene Regulation Is Bipolar
In this composite image by Greg Grieco, Frank Pugh holds a glass slide with a DNA microarray (magnified to fill the image background)
Scientists Discover Where Snakes Lived When They Evolved into Limbless Creatures
Scientists Discover Where Snakes Lived When They Evolved into Limbless Creatures
Student Receives Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the American Society for Microbiology
Penn State Names Student from Port Matilda as the 2003 Science Co-Op Student of the Year
Research on Relative Species Abundance Provides New Theoretical Foundation for Analyzing How Ecological Communities Arise
Plants and People Share a Molecular Signaling System, Researchers Discover
Mouse Research Sheds New Light on Human Genetic Diseases
Micro x-ray computed tomography (microCT) images of the tibia of normal and Perk mutant mice. The mutant shows thin cortical bone with deformations and gaping holes. "If it wasn't for muscle and connective tissue to hold these fragile bones together, these mice would fall apart," Cavener says.
Researchers Developing "Sentinel Plants" to Warn of Bioterrorism
Discovery Science Channel to Feature Penn State's Deep-Sea Research on 3 and 8 February 2003
Technology Developed at Penn State Licensed to Pharmaceutical Company
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