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Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor in ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s Department of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Biologist Awarded $1.8 Million to Advance Research of Alzheimer’s in Women

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's. 

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State professor explains how good cells can turn bad.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

A ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State professor, his graduate students and researchers from Kyoto University help offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017.

These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it.

An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State geology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.

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Melissa Zullo (left), associate professor of epidemiology in ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s College of Public Health, works with a Ph.D. student.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Epidemiologist Studies Best Practices for Helping Cardiac and Respiratory Patients Heal

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï scholar Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., is all heart, an academic who lives and breathes research, almost literally. Zullo, an associate professor of epidemiology in ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s College of Public Health, has spent a significant portion of her professional and academic career studying th…

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Cancer Survivors and Depression: ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Professor Studies Link

A new study by a ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State researcher finds that depression in some cancer survivors is linked to both care and financial concerns.

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Researchers to Study the Effects of Probiotics on Brain Health

University partners with i-Health and Stow-Glen Retirement Village ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï, in partnership with the Stow-Glen Retirement Village in Stow, Ohio, recently received an industry-funded grant of $430,000 from i-Health Inc., a subsidiary of DSM Nutritional Products, to examine whether takin…

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Students to Collaborate With Kyoto University Researchers

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï students will travel to Japan for collaborative research with the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, studying evolutionary genetic analysis, Alzheimer’s disease and aggressive behavior.      

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Jacob Barkley (left), associate professor of exercise science in ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services, oversees research activities with several students in a classroom in the MAC Center Annex.

Scholar Gets Students, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State on the Move

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï’s Scholar of the Month for December would prefer that you read this standing up, or even doing some calisthenics. Go on, get moving. Jacob Barkley, Ph.D., is an associate professor of exercise science in ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services. During hi…

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