Life Sciences

Two-part system turns stem cells into whatever you want
Schematic illustrating the reduced leakage expression, tight drug induced regulation, and retained functionality of new plasmid system in stem cells and differentiated cell types. Credit: Lauren N. Randolph / Penn State
Penn State DNA ladders: inexpensive molecular rulers for DNA research
Gel electrophoresis images of the two Penn State DNA ladders created by cutting the pPSU1 and pPSU2 plasmids with restriction enzymes. The 100-base-pair (bp) ladder is designed to be used with both agarose and acrylamide gels. Credit: Tan Laboratory, Penn State University
Todd LaJeunesse recognized for high impact research
Cover of the January/February 2014 issue of the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, featuring a scanning electron micrograph of the dinoflagellate species Symbiodinium voratum. The corresponding research article by Todd LaJeunesse and colleagues was awarded the 2014 William Trager Award.
Eberly College of Science announces fixed-term faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2017
Eberly College of Science promotions in academic rank, effective July 1, 2017
Simpson Lecture Set for May 25
Richard Young
Lessons from Ebola: New approach improves disease outbreak management
Response volunteers in Nigeria gather during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. A new study used models created during the 2014 outbreak to develop a new approach to information gathering that could save lives. Credit: CDC Global
Sarah Ades named 2017 Penn State Teaching Fellow
Sarah Ades
Penn State and Geisinger team up in new program to train next generation of biomedical scientists
Disease-associated genes routinely missed in some genetic studies
Low Coverage Genes in Whole-Exome Sequencing: Researchers identified 832 genes that have low coverage across multiple sequencing platforms.
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