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Year marked by loss, stress required flexibility, empathy of employers Crain’s Cleveland Business: Michael Goldberg, associate professor in the Department of Design and Innovation at Weatherhead School of Management and executive director of the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship, commented on…

Should I be worried about heavy metals in my baby's food? Daily Herald: Aparna Bole, an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine, shared thoughts on the need for stronger rules for testing and limiting the amount of heavy metals in foods for babies and…

New clues uncovered about toxic protein structures in neurodegenerative diseases Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: Witold K. Surewicz, the Robert F Bennett MD Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the School of Medicine, spoke about new research that provides…

Ohio researchers create new type of coating for solar panels Farm and Dairy: Giuseppe Strangi, professor of physics and the Ohio Research Scholar in Surfaces of Advanced Materials, was part of a team that created a new type of coating that could make the photovoltaic cells used to make solar…

Scientists grow mice embryos in a mechanical womb The New York Times: Paul Tesar, the Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Therapeutics at the School of Medicine, commented on experiments at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel to help understand how mammals develop and…

Long shot: Vaccination campaigns move at the speed of trust Fresh Water Cleveland: Amanda Mahoney, chief curator of the Dittrick Museum of Medical History at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed how distrust of COVID-19 vaccines in some health care workers is likely rooted in misinformation…

Patients recovered from COVID-19 ‘mostly protected from reinfection for at least 8 months’ Healio: Michael Rothberg, professor at the School of Medicine, spoke about the relative dearth of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide, given that those who are being inoculated are not being screened for having…

White men, mental health and mass shootings WHBC: Dan Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, commented on the correlation between mentally ill Caucasian men and mass murder…

'Vaccine passports' shouldn't be a passport to undue risk: experts Vietnam Express: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, said that Vietnam should make sure that all residents have access to free vaccines so that the vaccine passports do not lead to discrimination and exacerbate…

Virtual reality giving MetroHealth neurosurgeons a chance to ‘pre-do’ brain surgery: Brain tech in Cleveland cleveland.com: Ben Roitberg, professor at the School of Medicine, discussed how MetroHealth has been a national leader in VR in recent years. In 2017, neurological surgical residents…