Research
Boiler Black makes its debut
Friday, September 21st, 2018
Introducing: Boiler Black Boiler Black launches in time for Homecoming By Emma Ea Ambrose In case you’re wondering (and if you’re not, you should be), yes, there is now the opportunity to make a Purdue-themed Black and Tan cocktail. This week, Purdue’s food science department, in partnership with Lafayette-based People’s Brewing Co., launched their second…
Read MoreInvisible friends: Startup developing software to help understand vast data of microbiomes to solve world problems
Friday, September 7th, 2018 • University News Story
A Purdue University-affiliated startup is developing an intelligent software platform aimed at helping biologists to use microbes, the microscopic organisms that live in, on and around humans, plants, animals and more to cure diseases, improve crops an…
Read MoreStudy sheds light on stem cell proliferation that may one day boost crop yields
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 • University News Story
A Purdue University study has uncovered mechanisms that lead to stem cell formation and maintenance in plants. The findings may one day allow scientists to manipulate stem cell production to increase biomass that can be used for biofuels or grain yield…
Read MoreResearch team studies dog welfare in commercial breeding kennels
Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 • University News Story
The Stanton Foundation has awarded a grant of $1.98 million to Candace Croney and her research team to study the welfare of dogs and puppies in commercial breeding kennels.
Read MoreFuture of agriculture: Report to address climate change impacts on Hoosier farms
Monday, July 23rd, 2018 • University News Story
Hoosier farmers will have to adapt management practices and the types of crops they plant over the next several decades as they deal with the repercussions of climate change. That’s according to a new report from the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment team based at Purdue University.
Read MorePlants have unique lock to control expression of genes, study finds
Thursday, June 21st, 2018 • University News Story
Purdue University scientists have discovered evidence that the repressive structures that plants use to keep genes turned off is built with a potential self-destruct switch. The findings offer insight into ways to control gene expression to alter plants’ characteristics.
Read MorePurdue research promotes benefits of ‘tickling’ rats
Wednesday, June 20th, 2018 • University News Story
Parents often use tickling as a playful way to lighten a child’s mood. In Brianna Gaskill’s Purdue University lab, scientists do the same thing, only with rats.
Read MoreNew Purdue website provides essential information about high oleic soybeans
Monday, June 4th, 2018 • University News Story
A new website produced by Purdue University is designed to help dieticians, educators, farmers, food industry professionals and consumers better understand the benefits of high oleic soybean oil, an emerging heart-healthy alternative to traditional coo…
Read MorePurdue receives $1.8 million from DOE to solve biorefinery blockages
Tuesday, May 29th, 2018 • University News Story
One of the biggest problems facing biorefinery operations is the flow of biomass into and throughout facilities. Lignocellulosic biomass, often made up of post-harvest agricultural materials such as corn stover and soybean hulls, often accumulates and …
Read MoreSimulations show how beta-amyloid may kill neural cells
Thursday, May 24th, 2018 • University News Story
Beta-amyloid peptides, protein fragments that form naturally in the brain and clump into plaques in Alzheimer’s disease patients, are thought to be responsible for neuron death, but it hasn’t been clear how the substances kill cells. Now, a Purdue University scientist has shown through computer simulations that beta-amyloid may accumulate to kill neural cells by boring holes into them.
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