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A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is now being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results. A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have developed a novel method to disrupt...
5/2/2013 4:40 PM EDT
Peter B. Lewis to Speak at CWRU's Commencement
Renowned business leader and philanthropist Peter B. Lewis has been named Case Western Reserve University commencement speaker. The Progressive Insurance Co. chair to give address and receive an honorary degree on 10th anniversary of the opening of...
4/22/2013 10:30 AM EDT
Detecting Autism From Brain Activity
Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the University of Toronto have developed an efficient and reliable method of analyzing brain activity to detect autism in children. Their findings appear today in the online...
4/17/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Ordinary Skin Cells Morphed into Functional Brain Cells
Researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have discovered a technique that directly converts skin cells to the type of brain cells destroyed in patients with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other so-called myelin disorders. This...
4/14/2013 1:00 PM EDT
Case Western Reserve Awarded $1.9M Grant for Psoriasis Research
A dermatology researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has secured a five-year, $1.9 million federal grant to explore whether a specific molecule may play a pivotal role in the development and progression of psoriasis.
4/4/2013 9:00 AM EDT
Summit to Examine Vision Loss Due to Age-Related Eye Diseases
Every 11 minutes, someone in the United States goes blind, caused mainly by age-related eye diseases, according to Prevent Blindness America. Leaders in vision health will gather for The Aging Eye: Today’s Treatments-Tomorrow’s Hope summit on...
3/21/2013 2:00 PM EDT
Professor Offers “Lessons From Abroad” on Caring for a Graying Population
Aging expert M.C. Terry Hokenstad, PhD, social work professor in aging from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, calls his research findings, “lessons from abroad”—best practices for improving the...
3/20/2013 10:30 AM EDT
CWRU’s “Grey Matters”: Keeping the Aging Mind and Body Healthy
Growing older doesn’t necessitate breaking down physically and growing stagnant mentally—a lesson Case Western Reserve University’s 20th Annual Florence Cellar Conference will drive home next month with a battery of fitness tips and research.
3/18/2013 8:00 AM EDT
War-Crime Expert Assists in "Killing Fields" Trials in Cambodia
In just a few months, five leaders of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime will go on trial before the U.N.-established war crimes Tribunal in Cambodia (known as the ECCC). Case Western Reserve University School of Law's globe-trotting professor...
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