Science + Tech
April 04, 2019
Aims to help cultivate economic development through chemical engineering Ethiopia has an abundance of raw materials, but does not yet
have the engineering infrastructure to turn that material into a thriving
economy and jobs. But a new initiative funded by a longtime Case Western
Reserve…
April 03, 2019
March has always been a time of transitions – from winter to spring, from the press of the academic year through spring break to its downhill slope toward commencement, from the promulgation of New Year’s resolutions to settling into what we are actually going to do. For the School, it’s been…
April 03, 2019
More than 125 million people worldwide wear contact lenses, and while many are exposed to relatively common bacteria through their contact lenses, not all contract an eye infection. Researchers at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and University Hospitals (UH) Cleveland Medical Center…
April 03, 2019
Case Western Reserve team part of a multi-university, international study of how machines and mankind will collaborate more in ‘smart factories’ of the future Case Western Reserve University engineers are working with partners at two other universities and an Italian-owned company in Michigan to…
April 02, 2019
Probiotics typically aim to rebalance bacteria populations in the gut, but new research suggests they may also help break apart stubborn biofilms. Biofilms are living microbial communities—they provide a haven for microbes and are often resistant to antibiotics. A new study describes a specific…
April 01, 2019
4.5 million-year old fossil shows evidence of greater reliance on bipedalism than previously suggested Fossil hominin talus The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our…
March 27, 2019
A team of evaluators from three different CTSA hubs have used complementary bibliometric approaches to assess the scope, influence, and interdisciplinary collaboration of publications supported by single CTSA hubs and those supported by multiple hubs. Authors identified articles acknowledging CTSA…
March 26, 2019
We've made a lot of progress in the fight against HIV and the recent announcement of a second patient in remission reignited hope of cure on the horizon. In her widely read article A cure for HIV? Feasible but not yet realized, former Cleveland CTSC KL2 Scholar, Allison Webel, RN, PhD, breaks down…