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April 5, 2018

Science for You: Using genomics to stick it to the tick

3/1/2017 | Armed with barbed mouthparts and sophisticated spit, ticks (Ixodes scapularis) employ strategies that have served them for millions of years — stealthily hitching onto a host, slicing through its skin to bloodfeed...

April 5, 2018

Science for You: Unraveling the math of disease immunity

3/1/2017 | When children become infected with Bordetella pertussis, the bacteria damage the lining of their lungs, making it impossible to clear mucus and other microbes from their airways. Kids gasp, wheeze and cough uncontrollably, occasionally...

April 5, 2018

Science for You: Seeking stronger, more versatile sorghum for Africa

11/15/2017 | Purdue University scientists will develop stronger, more versatile varieties of sorghum that have the potential to reach millions of African farmers, thanks to a $5 million, five-year grant...

April 5, 2018

Science for You: Better guts for pigs and humans

3/1/2017| Pigs offer humans more than a lesson in mud running, fun as that is. Studies of Sus scrofa domesticus are modeling the benefits of eating fermentable fiber from an early age on to curb...

April 5, 2018

Science for You: Solar on the farm

7/31/2017 | Can crops and solar panels peacefully coexist? A group of Purdue researchers and students is seeking an answer to that question. Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished...

March 21, 2018

Cyber researchers use game theory to study power-grid security

11/15/2017| Researchers have laid the groundwork for a method to improve cybersecurity for large-scale systems like the power grid and autonomous military defense networks by harnessing game theory and creating...

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