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Researchers at Case Western Reserve University received a $486,000 Doris Duke Foundation award to discover how to predict when sickle cell disease patients will suffer an acute crisis and monitor the effectiveness of treatments. For decades, scientists have known that during acute crises, patients’...

To the Case Western Reserve University Community: As leaders of an institution of higher education, we must oppose the proposed academic boycotts of Israel in the strongest possible terms. In our 2008 strategic plan, Case Western Reserve embraced a vision where we sought to be recognized "as an ins...

A nudge from the nose of a free-roaming zebra or towering, 2,500-pound Clydesdale draft horse might send others running. But Lauren Burke, a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, instead extends a curved hand to retur...

Journal of Biological Chemistry “Paper of the Week” provides insight into vitamin production A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine study in the Nov. 22 issue of Journal of Biological Chemistry explained how vitamin A is generated from beta-carotene, its dietary precursors. The discove...

The streets of Yangon, Myanmar, are jam-packed with cars, and a new Mercedes-Benz dealership has opened. People carry the latest smartphones and tablets. Electricity is sporadic and unreliable, though. And the city has open sewers. “It just feels like the place burst open to outside technology all...

Program highlights his new book about historic moments that quickly change the course of international law C-SPAN Book TV will broadcast Case Western Reserve University law professor Michael P. Scharf’s recent talk at the City Club of Cleveland about his new book examining world events that change...

Case Western Reserve continued to see surging interest among high school seniors this fall, attracting 50 percent more Early Action applications than in 2012. The significant jump follows a record-setting year for overall applications—early and regular—for the class that entered this past August. It...

A central resource for research and information about creating and sustaining mixed-income communities has launched online at nimc.case.edu with resources at Case Western Reserve University. The National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities (NIMC) is based in the Center on Urban Poverty and Commu...

People often assume that experiencing something horrific automatically leads to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In contrast, though, most people are actually resilient in the aftermath of trauma. Understanding the principles that underlie such resilience is the focus of a new book. Facilitat...

Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and University of Kansas Medical Center have restored behavior—in this case, the ability to reach through a narrow opening and grasp food—using a neural prosthesis in a rat model of brain injury. Ultimately, the team hopes to develop a device that rap...