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Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor in ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’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.

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

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

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì professor explains how good cells can turn bad.

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

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

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

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì geology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

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

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Students to Collaborate With Kyoto University Researchers

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University 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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Melissa Zullo (left), associate professor of epidemiology in ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s College of Public Health, works with a Ph.D. student.

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Epidemiologist Studies Best Practices for Helping Cardiac and Respiratory Patients Heal

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University scholar Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., is all heart, an academic who lives and breathes research, almost literally. Zullo, an associate professor of epidemiology in ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’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: ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Professor Studies Link

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

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Researchers to Study the Effects of Probiotics on Brain Health

University partners with i-Health and Stow-Glen Retirement Village ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University, 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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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Students to Collaborate With Kyoto University Researchers

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University 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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