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genetics

A head and shoulders professional portrait of George-Lucian Moldovan against a background image of Penn State Cancer Institute

Understanding how cells repair DNA may lead to targeted cancer treatments

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New computational methods allow for accurate determination of gene expression

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Genetics of human face begin to reveal underlying profile

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Tracking inheritance of human mitochondrial DNA

an abstract image of what connections between genes may look like

Personalized gene networks may enhance study of disease

Leghorn Chicken

Researchers find genes that could help create more resilient chickens

red and black-striped bumble bees

How the bumble bee got its stripes

Ben Shaby and Daisy Philtron in front of whiteboard with equations

Researchers to study genetic roots of Parkinson's disease with NSF grant

Unjamming the genome after DNA damage

Mosquito-B-Gone: How gene editing can change the world

Graduate students in EGR training program

Training grant supports graduate students studying gene regulation

Concussion-gene-study-football-2018

Dyslexia gene may predict concussion susceptibility among football players

DNA mutation

Optimizing technologies for discovering cancer cell mutations

Clinical variability of disease-associated mutations can be explained by other variants in the genetic background

Family genetics vital for understanding autism progression

side by side mosquito heads one with black eyes on with white eyes

New technology improves CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in mosquitoes, other species

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