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Cows Eating Hay

Purdue researchers offer road map for sustainable livestock production — 04 May 2026

What’s good for the planet can also benefit animal welfare, livestock production and the food supply of a growing world’s population,...

close up of cow faces next to each other. One has perky ears and seems neutral, the other has wide eyes and a silly face pressed against a metal fence

What are animals feeling? Purdue animal scientists are learning how to read their emotions. — 20 April 2026

Heather Neave researches animal welfare, a field focused on understanding what practices can improve the lives of animals on farms, which also...

Yi-Kai Liu, W. Andy Tao, Zhoujun Luo, and Zheng Zhang stand in a row wearing white lab coats.

Protein modification discovery opens cancer therapy possibilities — 25 March 2026

A research team led by Purdue University’s W. Andy Tao has discovered of a new type of protein modification related to cellular mutation that...

Chip biosensor

Purdue research team wants to harness AI to secure corn crops from pathogenic threats — 23 March 2026

Purdue research team wants to harness AI to secure corn crops from pathogenic threats

Scientist in lab with students.

Drawing inspiration from nature to formulate new pharmaceuticals — 02 March 2026

Karthik Sankaranarayanan trained in two quite different scientific subfields as a graduate student and as a postdoctoral researcher. Now at Purdue...

Student and professor in the laboratory.

Purdue team announces new therapeutic target for breast cancer — 26 January 2026

A Purdue University team led by Kyle Cottrell has discovered a new therapeutic target for triple-negative breast cancer. “Triple-negative...

Mohit Verma in lab with grad student

Portable device detects pathogens’ diverse settings — 13 January 2026

Purdue University researchers have developed a device for more conveniently detecting pathogens in health care settings, on farms and in food...

Marisol Sepúlveda, professor of forestry and natural resources, speaks at the front of her class on One Health topics.

Applying One Health in the Classroom — 12 December 2025

Marisol Sepúlveda, professor of forestry and natural resources, created a new course for students interested in global health challenges: One...

Mongolian Energy Giving Site

From bird song to bulldozers, sound affects our wellbeing — 08 December 2025

It’s 2 a.m. and you’re woken by a motorcycle revving its engine outside your house. It takes you an hour to get back to sleep, and you...

Lavanya Reddivari with blueberries in her lab in West Lafayette, Ind. on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. Reddivari created complexes of anthocyanin, the compound in blueberries responsible for their color, and pectin to treat ulcerative colitis.

Optimizing food as medicine — 04 December 2025

Growing up in India, when Lavanya Reddivari had a cold, her mother would give her a remedy called haldi doodh in Hindi: warm milk with turmeric and...

Portrait of Chris Staiger

Plant ‘first responder’ cells warn neighbors about bacterial pathogens — 02 December 2025

Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical cues from bacterial...

Verma with spectroscopy

Light-based tool continuously monitors vaccine quality during production — 28 October 2025

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the need to rapidly develop, produce and distribute large quantities of new vaccines. A team of...

Tyler Hoskins collects zebrafish from wetlands near Purdue.

Working together to mitigate forever chemicals — 24 October 2025

PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of chemicals used to make consumer products heat, water or stain resistant.

Steve Lindeman in Lab

Researchers explore connections between human and animal health — 24 October 2025

Steve Lindemann, associate professor of food science and head of the Diet-Microbiome Interactions Laboratory, studies human health and disease...

Senay Simsek

Food science researchers contribute to Purdue’s One Health Initiative — 24 October 2025

In Purdue’s Department of Food Science, researchers are taking on issues of food and health in new and innovative ways. Their work fits...

This research is a part of Purdue’s presidential One Health initiative, which involves research at the intersection of human, animal and plant health and well-being.