Science + Tech

The epidemic of obesity is felt in prenatal clinics and delivery rooms around the world with a worrisome trend in high-risk pregnancies that could impact mother and child, according to Patrick M. Catalano, MD, the Dierker-Biscotti Women's Health and Wellness Professor and Director of the Center for ...

Will show short- and long-term outcomes and costs of decisions A team led by Case Western Reserve researchers is creating a computer model to help cities make the right decisions when it comes to drinking water Their goal includes helping municipal officials keep drinking water supplies safe—for e...

In the first major study of its kind, principal investigator Benjamin Gaston, MD, a pediatric pulmonologist and researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, has received a five-year, $13.3 million federal grant to dev...

Red5 Pharmaceuticals LLC, a Case Western Reserve University-based biopharmaceutical startup, was among 35 companies chosen from 200 applicants nationally to be featured as part of the first University Startups Demo Day in Washington, D.C., in September. The event was produced by the National Counci...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers describe mechanism central to maintaining healthy protein levels, avoiding disease states A new scientific study conducted by a team of leading geneticists has characterized how cells know when to stop translating DNA into proteins, a cr...

Two Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers are receiving new funding from California-based St. Baldrick’s Foundation for promising childhood cancer research. Reshmi Parameswaran, PhD, assistant professor of hematology and oncology, was awarded $330,000 to develop safer cance...

A new radial acceleration relation found among spiral and irregular galaxies challenges current understanding – and possibly existence - of dark matter In the late 1970s, astronomers Vera Rubin and Albert Bosma independently found that spiral galaxies rotate at a nearly constant speed: the velocity ...

Two Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine bioethicists are calling on organized medicine to end its refusal to provide clinical guidance regarding the care of patients actively seeking assistance in dying. Writing in the November 15, 2016 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine (now a...

A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has received a three-year “big data” grant from the National Science Foundation that will help researchers more effectively gather, use, and share neuroscience-related data, ultimately leading to better treatments. Sharing and using su...

Case Western Reserve University-led research could speed identification of recurrent tumors, eliminate costly and risky brain biopsies Computer programs have defeated humans in Jeopardy!, chess and Go. Now a program developed at Case Western Reserve University has outperformed physicians on a more s...