genetics

UNIVERSITY PARK — Brook trout may have a genetic trick up their scales when it comes to adapting, with limitations, to heatwaves that threaten their e...

UNIVERSITY PARK — The discovery of a hybrid population of poplar trees in western Wyoming has provided insight into how natural hybridization informs ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Cacao, the chocolate tree, is one of the world’s most important economic crops, generating hundreds of billions of dollars annually....

Few things fascinate deer hunters more than large, multi-pointed antlers. The flash of a heavy 10 or 12-point buck can excite hunters to a fever pitch...

READING (AP) — Conjoined twins Lori and George Schappell, who pursued separate careers, interests and relationships during lives that defied medical e...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Before we have an anti-aging drug for humans, we’re likely to have one for dogs. Multiple clinical trials are currently underway to t...

(TNS) — A Chinese company is one of several being targeted by federal legislators. The company — which has a location in Pennsylvania — has been calle...

DuBOIS — While a baby is in the womb, it depends on the mother’s body for important functions such as breathing, elimination of waste and immune prote...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, when an out-of-whack immune system attacks their own bodies — and new...

NEW YORK (TNS) — 2023 had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan. 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientifi...

It’s a mention in a newscast, a headline in a newspaper, an entry on a prayer list, and then, perhaps, forgotten. Except by the sufferer and his famil...

Community Blood Bank will hold a drive from noon to 5 p.m. Monday at St. Bernard Church, 95 E. Corydon St. Each December donor is entered into the wee...

PORT ALLEGANY — The Port Allegany Gator football family once again welcomed Ray Fox, Brooke Schelander and Cameron Ernst during the 2023 National Down...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will host Dr. John Androsavich’s public lecture on the promise of biomedical research at 7 p.m. Thursday. The...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Selenium-enriched diets may help ward off myeloid leukemia, and a new study led by researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultur...

The Biden administration announced this week the revamp of the free COVID-19 testing program. “Manufacturing COVID-19 tests in the United States stren...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Erika Ganda, assistant professor of food animal microbiomes and executive committee member of Penn State’s One Health Microbiome Cen...

ONE: Only one percent of lucky individuals have the highly sought-after trait of heterochromia iridum, a term which describes the variation in color t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — When scientists announced at a conference last week that they had created synthetic human embryos, it felt like something from Brave ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In the fall of 2020, when Chad Dechow got a call from veterinarians in New York describing a strange condition affecting Holste...