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One Health

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Tracking ticks and tackling disease: AI transforms medical entomology — 24 October 2025

A robot “dog” may soon make its way from a Purdue entomology lab to fetch real-time data on tick populations in the wild. It’s...

Novel biosensor detects genetically modified corn and soybean — 16 September 2025

The continually expanding toolkit from Mohit Verma’s laboratory at Purdue University now includes a portable, paper-based biosensor for...

A natural GLP-1 stimulant? — 04 September 2025

Drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro have made regular headlines in recent years for their ability to facilitate weight loss – often dramatic...

Expert tips for minimizing threat of West Nile virus, other vector-borne disease — 28 August 2025

As mosquitoes and people across the country test positive for West Nile virus (WNV), Purdue University entomologists are sharing guidance to help...

College of Agriculture introduces 14 new faculty members — 26 August 2025

College of Agriculture welcomes 14 new faculty members, kicking off the start of the 2025 fall semester.

ABE faculty member wins prestigious NSF CAREER award — 20 August 2025

Safe tap water, while ordinary in developed countries, is truly miraculous, the product of generations of ongoing hard work and innovation. As...

New method probes cancer cell messengers that weaken immune system — 18 August 2025

Certain types of biochemical processes can impair the immune system’s ability to recognize and kill cancer cells. Purdue University’s...

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.