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Important Perk
8/9/12
Researchers have identified in mice a protein that is necessary for maintaining behavioral flexibility, the ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Their findings may offer new insights for addressing such human afflictions as autism and schizophrenia, in which this ability is significantly impaired.
The Medical Minute: What to eat in 2008
3/25/08
What's on your plate -- your dinner plate, that is? Too often we eat what we like from what is available without considering anything but taste. Or, eating out, we choose from a menu based on likes and dislikes rather than nutrition. The good news, according to the latest edition of The Medical Minute, a service of the Penn State Hershey Medical Center, is it's OK to have entertainment foods from time to time as long as our basic diet is healthy.
Looking for the Globin Switch
9/1/96
I'd heard of the firefly trick—taking the gene that makes the bug blink and sticking it into a heretofore unblinking cell, say, a human red blood cell. I was hoping to see it done when I scheduled an afternoon last April in Penn State biochemist Ross Hardison's lab. But my tourguide, undergraduate researcher Monette Aujay, merely shrugged.
That work was years old.
But did she use it?
She tilted her head, eyed me calmly. Well, yes.
Life's Jumps
9/1/95
Plants can't run away.
It's not a new thought: Anyone has pondered it who's watched a favorite oak stripped by caterpillars, a row of lettuces nipped by frost, or potted pansies wilting in the sun.
December 2012
12/3/12
Photo of the Day set for December 2012. Penn State's University Park campus.
Important Perk
8/9/12
Researchers have identified in mice a protein that is necessary for maintaining behavioral flexibility, the ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Their findings may offer new insights for addressing such human afflictions as autism and schizophrenia, in which this ability is significantly impaired.
The Medical Minute: What to eat in 2008
3/25/08
What's on your plate -- your dinner plate, that is? Too often we eat what we like from what is available without considering anything but taste. Or, eating out, we choose from a menu based on likes and dislikes rather than nutrition. The good news, according to the latest edition of The Medical Minute, a service of the Penn State Hershey Medical Center, is it's OK to have entertainment foods from time to time as long as our basic diet is healthy.
Looking for the Globin Switch
9/1/96
I'd heard of the firefly trick—taking the gene that makes the bug blink and sticking it into a heretofore unblinking cell, say, a human red blood cell. I was hoping to see it done when I scheduled an afternoon last April in Penn State biochemist Ross Hardison's lab. But my tourguide, undergraduate researcher Monette Aujay, merely shrugged.
That work was years old.
But did she use it?
She tilted her head, eyed me calmly. Well, yes.
Life's Jumps
9/1/95
Plants can't run away.
It's not a new thought: Anyone has pondered it who's watched a favorite oak stripped by caterpillars, a row of lettuces nipped by frost, or potted pansies wilting in the sun.