KENNESAW, Ga., Sept. 14 -- Kennesaw State University issued the following news release:
Through the Birla Carbon International Scholars Program, Roque Perez and eight other KSU students spent six weeks this summer in Goa, India,
gaining real-world research experience in biology, chemistry, and physics projects
alongside scientists at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani Goa Campus.
"I was handling lung cancer cells in my hands," Roque Perez said. "Just the fact that I had to treat them and also take care of these cells was an amazing opportunity."
In India, Roque Perez and three other KSU biology students tested a drug on lung cancer
cells to learn which proteins it deactivated and how that process caused the cells
to die...