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The Biology of Eco Health

Person to Person: Chelsea Hudson and Edson Ishengoma

New Partnership to Discover Treatment Options for Tuberculosis

A Tall Order: Sequencing the Giraffe Genome

Key regulator of bone development identified

Knocking out the Spop protein in developing mouse limb leads to brachydactyly, a shortening of the fingers and toes (left) and reduced bone density (right). Credit: Liu Laboratory, Penn State University.

Coral genomes reveal how populations rebound after environmental catastrophes

Orbicella annularis coral. One of three surviving members of genus Orbicella. Researchers used the newly sequenced genomes of these three species to reconstruct the population histories of these corals, showing that they could recover after environmental catastrophe and expand into new habitats. Credit: NOAA

New strategy for antidepressant therapies: Increasing the activity of the neurotransmitter GABA in the brains of depressed mice has antidepressant effects

Microscope images of SST+ interneurons from a control brain (left) and a mutant brain with the GABA receptor disabled (right). The cells are stained with fluorescent dyes labeling the GABA receptor (green), an associated scaffolding protein (red), and the cell body (blue). Loss of green and red staining in the mutant indicates the loss of GABA inhibition in these cells, which leads to antidepressant activity. Credit: Lüscher laboratory, Penn State University.

Cosgrove awarded the inaugural Masatoshi Nei Innovation Prize in Biology

Parasitic Plants May Form Weapons Out of Genes Stolen from Hosts

Claude dePamphilis, professor of biology in Penn State's Eberly College of Science, displays a broomrape, a parasitic plant growing from grindella, in a greenhouse on the Penn State University Park campus. Image: Bill Zimmerman

Three Alumni Honored with Penn State's Outstanding Science Alumni Award

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