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Kent 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 Âé¶¹´«Ã½ researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

Tags: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Research

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Kent State geology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

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

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

Tags: Research & Science, Department of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences

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Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe.

Students Turn Smartphone Cases Into Lifesaving Medical Devices

Three Kent State students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. 

Together, with the help of LaunchNET Kent State, the three created Case.MD. Ariella Yager, entrepreneur major in Kent State’s College of Business Administration; Samuel Graska, cell and molecular biology major in Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences; and Justin Gleason, graduate student in Kent State’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design spent more than a year planning, inventing, designing and 3-D printing smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

Tags: Student Life, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, College of Arts and Sciences, LaunchNet Kent State

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Prof Moves Into Motel to Study the People That Society ‘Doesn’t Care Enough About’

Struggling addicts, registered sex offenders, released prisoners and the recently homeless. A Kent State professor documents their stories to raise awareness of the issues they face.

Tags: Arts & Culture, College of Arts and Sciences, Featured Story

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Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe.

Students Turn Smartphone Cases Into Lifesaving Medical Devices

With the help of LaunchNET Kent State, three students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

Tags: Student Life, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, College of Arts and Sciences, LaunchNet Kent State

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