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• Nanoscale zinc oxide used to detect anthrax.(NANOTECHNOLOGY)

  - 2006-08-01

  Zinc oxide ZnO nanomaterials are being investigated by scientists at Pennsylvania State University Penn State, USA, as signal enhancing materials in highly sensitive deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sensor arrays. The researchers report that the ZnO structures can successfully discriminate the DNA sequence of biological threats...

  Tags: Biotechnology, DNA, nanotechnology, Pennsylvania State University, professor, researcher, species

• Pennsylvania State University obtains United States patent.

  - 2006-03-01

  Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA) has patented a novel cytosine-5 DNA methyltransferase, isolated from Chlorella virus NYs-1, and its encoded enzyme. The methyltransferase recognizes a GpC dinucleotide in DNA. Methods of using the novel methyltransferase in high resolution chromatin mapping and related techniques are also...

  Tags: Biotechnology, DNA, patent, Pennsylvania State University

• Mammoth Genome Sequenced.(Brief Article)

  - 2006-01-01

  Alisa Woods, PhD Researchers from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa., have sequenced a portion of the woolly mammoth genome. Their results were reported in the December 20, 2005, online edition of Science . A...

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• Bookshelf

  - 2002-04-01

  The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science, by Raymond L. Lee Jr. and Alistair B. Fraser (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001; $65) A mathematician and a meteorologist team up to examine the optics of the rainbow and the manner in which its spectrum bas been incorporated into...

  Tags: Biotechnology, essay, Pennsylvania State University

• Pittsburgh Partnership of Universities, Firms, Government Lands 4th Company.

  - 2001-06-26

  By Frank Reeves, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 26--Gov. Tom Ridge visits the Pittsburgh area today to pitch one of his favorite themes: that partnerships among government, universities and business are key to transforming the state into a high-tech...

  Tags: Biotechnology, FINANCE, Government, Pennsylvania State University, Pittsburgh, SOFTWARE

• A free astrobiology guide. (Classroom Aids).(Pennsylvania State University)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-06-22

  A FREE ASTROBIOLOGY GUIDE is available from Pennsylvania State University for high school educators who want to explore with their students the possibility of other forms of life in the universe. The various articles in the 16-page guide, called Astrobiology: The Search for Life in the...

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