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July 22, 2015
Since 1994, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have studied mothers—some who used cocaine while pregnant and others who did not—to understand how the drug affected their children’s cognitive and social development. Their latest findings suggest a link between prenatal cocaine exposure…
July 21, 2015
A Case Western Reserve University medical student known for always giving to others now needs the community’s assistance as he recovers from a near-deadly injury suffered during a cancer research fundraiser. Life Flight had to transport second-year student Brady Tucker to MetroHealth Medical…
July 20, 2015
Technology to help farmers’ market managers better understand and serve customers FM Tracks, a new digital app designed to help farmers’ markets and local healthy foods initiatives manage and evaluate federal nutrition incentive programs, launched Monday, July 13. The new technology, created to…
July 17, 2015
When Me’lani Joseph was 11 years old, she and her mother lived in Tanzania near a village where many homes lacked running water and electricity. Though her home had those luxuries, she never forgot the experience of seeing others go without them. “That really stuck with me as an 11-year-old,” she…
July 16, 2015
Patented DNA modification technology shows potential to improve chemotherapy as treatment of various cancers
Biopharmaceutical startup Red5 Pharmaceuticals LLC has executed an exclusive license from Case Western Reserve University to further develop procedures during chemotherapy using a patented…
July 16, 2015
The power of ideas paid student entrepreneurs handsomely during the school year. In all, they won more than $200,000 in competitions. Their budding businesses are striving to make flying safer and cheaper, enable the world’s poorest to recharge phones and power lights, help health care workers…
July 15, 2015
Federal grant supports design of platform for collection, analysis of different kinds of data Satya Sahoo Case Western Reserve University is one of three institutions nationwide to win federal "Big Data" grants focused on developing ways to ensure the integrity and comparability of the reams of…
July 15, 2015
Mehmet Koyuturk The amount of biomedical data being generated nationally is exploding, and holds great promise for research. The data is often organized in the form of networks, which provide insights into interactions among the components of biological systems, such as molecules, genes and…
July 14, 2015
Before her junior year even begins, aerospace and mechanical engineering major Diana Illingsworth already has a plan for how she will pay for the final two years of her college career, and it comes with a unique opportunity—a post-graduation job. Thanks to a generous Science, Mathematics and…
July 13, 2015
Case Western Reserve researchers already demonstrated that a single protein plays a pivotal role in the use of nutrients by major organs that allow for the burning of fat during exercise or regulating the heart’s contractile and electrical activity. Now they have found a new benefit of Kruppel-like…