Case Western Reserve Radiology Professor Mark Griswold knew his world had changed the moment he first used a prototype of Microsoft’s HoloLens headset. Two months later, one of the university’s medical students illustrated exactly why. Today, Griswold described how HoloLens can transform learning.
Ahmad M. Khalil, PhD, and his team identified parts of the body that rev up one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, HER2+. Their findings appear this month in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment about the 38 genes and molecules that most likely trigger HER2+ cancer cells to spread.
A Case Western Reserve University researcher has won a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to combine antibodies and the tobacco mosaic virus into create tiny sensors capable of detecting insecticides in Lake Erie or determining subtypes of human cancers
Thanks to the Alana Foundation, Down syndrome researcher Alberto Costa, MD, PhD, has taken another step toward making Northeast Ohio a leader in exploring potential treatments for the genetic condition. Case Western Reserve has received $1.7 million for basic science research collaboration with MIT.
Case Western Reserve University's Inamori International Center selects celebrated philosopher and groundbreaking scholar Martha Nussbaum for its 2015 Inamori Ethics Prize.
Led by Case Western Reserve researchers, a multi-institutional team identified two topical drugs (miconazole and clobetasol) capable of stimulating regeneration of damaged brain cells and reversing paralysis in animal models of MS. The results appear online Monday, April 20, in the journal Nature.
A team led by Case Western Reserve researchers has identified a promising approach to lowering relapse rates among youths addicted to illegal drugs or alcohol. These findings were posted online this month in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
Professor Jonathan Stamler’s latest findings regarding nitric oxide have the potential to reshape fundamentally the way we think about the respiratory system – and offer new avenues to save lives. His findings were recently published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
After discovering a group of people resistant to tuberculosis infection, Case Western Reserve researchers are leading an international team dedicated to understanding how they fight off a disease that claims 1.5 million lives each year. The team’s goal is to use lessons learned to develop therapies.
On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life Before Pregnancy (University of California Press, 2015), a new book by Case Western Reserve University sociologists Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy Black focuses on life events resulting in teen motherhood, revealing some realities behind the statistics.
The concept was simple: If two compounds individually show promise in preventing colon cancer, it’s worth trying the two together. Metformin and Vitamin D3 proved dramatically better than either option alone. Their findings served as the cover feature for the February Cancer Prevention Research.
Ketamine, used for operative procedures, has shown such promise in mouse models that Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic researchers soon will launch a two-year clinical trial using low doses of the medication in up to 35 individuals with the neurodevelopmental disorder Rett Syndrome.
Half a century ago, a concentrated global effort nearly wiped a disfiguring tropical disease from the face of the earth. Now, says Case Western Reserve’s James W. Kazura, MD, it’s time to complete the work.
Case Western Reserve researchers are part of an international team that has discovered that Valacyclovir reduces HIV-1 levels — even when patients do not have herpes. Results were published online in Clinical Infectious Disease.
Case Western Reserve scientists have discovered that speed matters when it comes to how messenger RNA (mRNA) deciphers critical information within the genetic code — the complex chain of instructions critical to sustaining life. The investigators’ findings, which appear in the March 12 journal Cell.
Case Western Reserve University nurse scientist Amy Zhang, who has long examined quality-of-life issues in cancer patients, wondered whether depression in African-American cancer patients has been under-recognized for treatment.
Without the Bahamas mosquitofish to eat, bigmouth sleepers slide down the food chain and survive on insects, snails and crustaceans. And, in so doing, sleepers’ behaviors, ratio of males to females and physical appearance change, too.
With a two-year option license agreement from Case Western Reserve University’s Technology Transfer Office, Apollo Medical Devices LLC plans to further advance toward commercialization a point-of-care blood tester.
Case Western Reserve University is launching five online engineering master's, designed for professionals to complete the degree remotely within two years. The new programs offer a Master of Engineering, and Master of Science degrees in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and systems and control engineering.
A researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and colleagues will investigate whether gut leakage leads to the disease and malfunction of vital organs commonly found in HIV patients, whether drug abuse exacerbates the problem, how to fix the leaks and whether gut repair improves overall health.
Case Western Reserve University and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center are teaming with medical device-makers Medtronic and Ardiem Medical, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the universities of Chicago and California at San Francisco, and the Providence VA’s Ocean State Research Institute to speed development of a mobile prosthetic system that can provide a sense of touch to amputees outside the lab.
Case Western Reserve’s chemical compound aimed at restoring spinal cord function may have an additional purpose. A special peptide could address arrhythmias by penetrating heart attack scar tissue to regenerate cardiac nerves. The research results appear in the Feb. 2 Nature Communication.
Case Western Reserve scientists have taken a leap toward identifying root causes of psoriasis. Of the roughly 50,000 proteins in the human body, researchers have zeroed in on four likely contributors to this inflammatory skin condition. The findings were published Molecular & Cellular Proteomics.
Weather changes may affect how institutional investors decide on stock plays, according to a new study by a team of finance researchers. Their findings suggest sunny skies put professional investors more in a mood to buy, while cloudy conditions tend to discourage stock purchases.
Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center researchers and physicians have discovered that the molecule known as coenzyme A plays a key role in cell metabolism by regulating the actions of nitric oxide. Their findings appeared in the Dec. 15 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified new gene mutations unique to colon cancers in African Americans – the population with the highest incidence and death rates of any group for this disease.
It's neither greed nor personal gain, necessarily, but desperation, concludes Kelly McMann, a political scientist at Case Western Reserve University and author of the recently released book, Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2014).
A pair of Case Western Reserve University engineering students are field-testing their foot-powered cell phone charger in rural villages of the Kingdom of Lesotho. The sophomores hope to sell chargers, which use ratchet mechanics, at $5 or less.
Case Western Reserve researchers have identified a two-pronged therapeutic approach that shows great potential for weakening and then defeating cancer cells. The team’s complex mix of genetic and biochemical experiments unearthed a way to increase the presence of a tumor-suppressing protein.
Case Western Reserve is one of two universities in the country selected to lead a $27.3 million international effort to identify the causes of a mysterious and deadly phenomenon that strikes people with epilepsy without warning.
It appears that men have figured out what women have known for years: nursing is a great profession. Just ask the current class in Case Western Reserve University's masters entry-nursing program.
Case Western Reserve scientists have developed a new chemical compound that shows extraordinary promise in restoring function lost to spinal cord injury. The compound allowed paralyzed muscles to activate in more than 80 percent of the animals tested. The study appears in the Dec. 3 journal Nature.
Witnessing violence by parents or a parent’s intimate partner can trigger for some children a chain of negative behaviors that follows them from preschool to kindergarten and beyond, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University.
Nurses Making Policy: From Bedside to Boardroom (Springer Publishing, 2014), implores nurses to speak up and be heard, from the hospital corridors to the floors of Congress.
Case Western Reserve researchers have identified a protein mutation that alters specific gender-related tissue in males before birth and can contribute to cancer and other less life-threatening challenges. The findings appear in the November 21 edition of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Case Western Reserve researchers have developed a procedure that restores function to muscles that control breathing – even when they have been paralyzed for more than a year. The breakthrough offers hope that patients with severe spinal cord injuries will be able to breathe again on their own.
Case Western Reserve malaria specialist Brian T. Grimberg, PhD, is among Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014 being honored this evening in Washington, DC. He developed the scientific concept behind a portable, hand-held malaria detection device.
The article, “Pleading Patterns and the Role of Litigation as a Driver of Federal Climate Change Legislation,” by Juscelino F. Colares, with a statistical assist from Kosta Ristovski, is based on an analysis of 178 federal and state lawsuits and the pleading patterns that emerge from those cases. Their findings suggest that greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters, if not motivated by fear of litigation, are unlikely to shift from blocking to supporting emissions-restricting legislation.
The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is a key player in nearly $13.32 million in federal grants awarded to improve community health in Northeast Ohio. CDC renewed the PRCHN’s grant for $4.35 million over five years.
Students and moviegoers may find a helpful resource in a new pocket-sized guide to better understanding and interpreting film.
The uncontrolled growth of cancer cells arises from their ability to hijack the cell’s normal growth program and checkpoints. After therapy, a second cancer-signaling pathway will open after the primary one shuts down. The answer, say Case Western Reserve researchers, is to block the back-up track.
Case Western Reserve University mental health researcher Joseph Galanek spent a cumulative nine months in an Oregon maximum-security prison to learn first-hand how the prison manages inmates with mental illness
Six Case Western Reserve scientists are part of an international team that has discovered two compounds that show promise in decreasing inflammation in diseases such as ulcerative colitis and arthritis. The compounds appear to curtail inflammation-triggering signals from RIPK2. These findings appear in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Dean Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, and Department of Physiology and Biophysics Chair Walter Boron, MD, PhD, have won election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM), one of the most prestigious societies for health and medicine.
The authors of the new book, Adopting Older Children: A Practical Guide to Adopting and Parenting Children over Age Four (New Horizon Press), hope to help guide parents through the process of adopting an older child.
Case Western Reserve University will present Ebola expert, Daniel Bausch, MD, in a public special lecture from 2 to 3 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, in Wolstein Research Building Auditorium, 2103 Cornell Rd., Cleveland. He will address “From the Front Lines of the Battle with Ebola.”
On the 25th anniversary of discovering the cystic fibrosis gene, more than two-dozen CF innovators and clinicians, including five on the Case Western Reserve campus, took this special occasion to reflect on the discovery and the status of research and treatment during videotaped interviews.
For the second consecutive year, a Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has landed the much-coveted Director’s New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Rong Xu, PhD, will initiate computational analysis of thousands of drugs and their effects.
Case Western Reserve University’s synchrotron facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory is on its way to becoming the No. 1 beamline facility for biology in the world by early 2016, thanks to a jumpstart grant of $4.6 million from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
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