A new machine-learning method developed by researchers at Penn State accurately identifies regions of the human genome that have been duplicated or deleted — known as copy number variants — that are often associated with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Wei Li, assistant professor of pediatrics and biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State College of Medicine, has been awarded the Meghan Rose Bradley Foundation Pediatric Brain Cancer Pilot Grant.
Santhosh Girirajan, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and of anthropology at Penn State, has been honored with the 2018 C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Eberly College of Science Alumni Society.
Penn State undergraduate student Paige Laughlin has been selected to receive the 2017 Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Employers' JoAnne Day Student of the Year Award in the technical category.
The parasite that causes malaria has not one, but two, specialized proteins that protect its genetic material until the parasite takes up residence in a new host.
Feng Yue, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State College of Medicine, has been awarded a five-year, $1.91 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of Health.
Plant sciences student Laura Reese spent her spring semester working for NASA in Cape Canaveral, Florida. She performed research in conditions meant to emulate growing plants in space.
Ericka Reed, a doctoral student in biochemistry and molecular biology, has been selected to receive the Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The fellowship is intended to prepare a diverse and highly trained scientific workforce to be leaders in their fields.
A newly described protein could be an effective target for combating drug-resistant malaria parasites. The protein, the transcription factor PfAP2-I, regulates a number of genes involved with the parasite’s invasion of red blood cells, a critical part of the parasite’s complex life cycle that could be targeted by new anti-malarial drugs.
Penn State Schreyer Honors Scholar Alexander Smith won a Goldwater Scholarship, the premier award of its kind for excellence in the fields of mathematics, science and engineering.
Squire J. Booker, professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences — one of the nation’s oldest honorary societies.
A team of scientists has uncovered details of the cellular mechanisms that control the direct programming of stem cells into motor neurons. The research findings, which appear online in the journal Cell Stem Cell on Dec. 8, show the challenges facing current cell-replacement technology, but they also outline a potential pathway to the creation of more viable methods.
Incoming Penn State freshman Teniola Idowu, is one of the 1,000 students to receive the honor of being named as a 2016 Gates Millennium Scholar, the last class of the program, and one of 29 students named to the fourth cohort of Penn State Millennium Scholars.
A new collaboration between TB Alliance, GSK, and scientists in the Eberly College of Science seeks to find new small molecules that can be used to create antibiotics in the fight against tuberculosis (TB).
It has been a long and winding road from Haiti to graduation for Launick Saint-Fort, a biochemistry and molecular biology major at Penn State Berks. Now, with graduation on the horizon, she will soon begin the next chapter — a 14-month, fully-funded fellowship at the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease in Bethesda, Maryland, where she will be investigating parasitic diseases.
