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Department of Biology

Department of Biology

Charles Anderson with super microscope

Grants from NSF power super-resolution microscope, probe cell walls in plants

Acropora palmata

Corals much older than previously thought, study finds

A bird eating seeds from a rare fruit.

Birds maintain rare plant species, study finds

dePamphilis in greenhouse

Parasitic plants may form weapons out of genes stolen from hosts

Rush Holt

Heard on Campus: Rush Holt, retired lawmaker and AAAS leader

Penn State shield: A general image used to accompany some pieces of content on Penn State News.

RNA, gravitational waves focus of two new grants

Smoke Lab-Hubbard

Where there's smoke and a mutation there may be an evolutionary edge for humans

adult Colorado Potato Beetle

Study of fungi-insect relationships may lead to new evolutionary discoveries

Anna Wing spring 2016 Eberly College of Science student marshal

Wing and Bram are Penn State Eberly College of Science student marshals

Rock Springs farm

Recoupling crops and livestock offers energy savings to Northeast dairy farmers

Devon Fisk 2015

College of Health and Human Development names Devon Fisk student marshal

squash and pumpkins

Loss of mastodons aided domestication of pumpkins, squash

Cross section of freshly cut sugar cane

Unlocking the biofuel energy stored in plant cell walls

Boulder Star Coral

Invasive microbe protects corals from global warming, but at a cost

Dragonfly gut

Dragonfly gut infections suggest environmental role in obesity

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