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PBS to highlight 91¸£Àû Stark professor's research on how butterflies could help serve as a model to deliver medicine to humans.

How Butterflies Could Help Deliver Meds to Humans

PBS to highlight 91¸£Àû Stark professor's research on how butterflies could be used as a model for delivering disease-fighting drugs to the human body.

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91¸£Àû receives grant to help move inventions to the commercial market.

From Research Lab to Commercial Market: State Awards Grant to Boost Economy

91¸£Àû is among the institutions and businesses in Ohio to share $10 million in grants from the state’s Third Frontier Commission. 91¸£Àû will share $400,000 with Cleveland State University to help commercialize the inventions that they create through research. The grants ar…

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Metin I. Eren, director of archaeology and an assistant professor of anthropology in 91¸£Àû’s College of Arts and Sciences, prepares to fire a replica arrowhead at a special lab at the university's Kent Campus.

91¸£Àû Archaeologist Uses National Science Foundation Grant to Recreate, Test Ancient Weapons

91¸£Àû professor uses a $215,000 National Science Foundation grant to analyze weapons technology dating back 11,000 to 12,000 years.

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Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor in 91¸£Àû’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.

91¸£Àû Biologist Awarded $1.8 Million to Advance Research of Alzheimer’s in Women

91¸£Àû's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's. 

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91¸£Àû Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

91¸£Àû Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

91¸£Àû researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

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91¸£Àû professor explains how good cells can turn bad.

91¸£Àû Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

A 91¸£Àû professor, his graduate students and researchers from Kyoto University help offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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91¸£Àû 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 91¸£Àû researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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91¸£Àû Cancer Depression Link

Cancer Survivors and Depression: 91¸£Àû Professor Studies Link

A new study by a 91¸£Àû researcher finds that depression in some cancer survivors is linked to both care and financial concerns.

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91¸£Àû geology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

91¸£Àû Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

91¸£Àû Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.

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