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The Hazleton One Community Center was set up for a food giveaway where community members received a free bag of groceries per family.

Todays writers are K.J. Allen, Franco Trainia, Mike McMillen, Barb Foland Mathews and M.D. Ridenour of Fort Wayne and Eric Helfrich of Churubusco

Brazilian ant farm yields new antifungal compound By (0) Fungus-growing ants, found throughout the Americas, may prove to be a source of medically useful compounds, researchers say. Photo by Hectonichus/Wikimedia Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Scientists have discovered a unique metabolite molecule utilized by a diversity of attine ants, or fungus-farming ants, in Brazil. The the new molecule, attinimicin, described Wednesday in the journal ACS Central Science, is structurally too complex to serve as a us...