The enzyme tokK helps synthesize a chain of methyl groups that allows antibiotics called carbapenems to circumvent antibiotic resistance.
Physical Sciences
The key to a powerful antibiotic’s formation now clear
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Stephanie Wissel named Downsbrough Early Career Professor of Physics
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Stephanie Wissel has been honored with the Downsbrough Early Career Professorship in Physics at Penn State.
Cui-Zu Chang Named Henry W. Knerr Early Career Professor
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Cui-Zu Chang, assistant professor of physics, has been named Henry W. Knerr Early Career Professor of Physics at Penn State.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s robots turn their eyes to the sky
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A new robotic system will enable the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to more efficiently map the galaxies and black holes in our galaxy.
Coronal rain on a cold star?
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Observations of a stellar flare with Penn State's Habitable-zone Planet Finder could be the first evidence of coronal rain on a cool M-dwarf
A Mars-sized planet orbiting extremely close to its host star
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Mars-sized object orbiting extremely closely to an M-dwarf star validated as a planet using the Penn State Habitable-zone Planet Finder
Distortion: Researchers discover new strategy for antibodies to disable viruses
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Can defects turn inert materials into useful, active ones?
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Going gold: Chemists and engineers to investigate using gold as catalyst in hydrogenation
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Quasars, Black Holes, and a Cosmological Conundrum
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A quest for the origin of the most-distant quasars in the early universe