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Roxanne Khamsi, chief news editor of Nature Medicine, will present the keynote address for Case Western Reserve University’s annual Research ShowCASE, where hundreds of scientists, scholars, faculty members and students come together to exhibit, demonstrate and explain their research projects rangin...

Case Western Reserve University PhD student focuses on tropical islands Snakes known to produce some of the most toxic venoms swim the shallows of the western Pacific and eastern Indian oceans and sun themselves on island coasts from southwestern Japan to Indonesia, the Andaman Islands to Fiji. But...

The conflict between science and religion may have its origins in the structure of our brains, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Babson College have found. Clashes between the use of faith vs. scientific evidence to explain the world around us dates back centuries and is perhaps mo...

Little is known about the molecular basis of aberrant protein glycosylation, a complex enzymatic process that is a hallmark of many human cancers including colorectal cancers (CRC), and how it may contribute to tumor progression. In a new study published in Scientific Reports, an online journal of t...

Developmental psychologist Maria Pagano, PhD, found adolescents with severe alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems have a low regard for others, as indicated by higher rates of driving under the influence and having unprotected sex with a history of sexually transmitted disease. The findings also sho...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is among the top 25 research-oriented medical schools in the nation, and is No. 1 in Ohio, according to the influential ranking of graduate schools released today by U.S. News & World Report. “Our continuous ranking among the top 25 medical schools...

In the first known discovery of its kind, a Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine-led team has found that HIV patients in Africa with a certain genetic variant have a 63-percent lower chance of developing tuberculosis than HIV patients without the genetic variant. “This finding could p...

Guest Author: Neal Meropol, MD Timely (within 24 months of completion) reporting of the results of clinical trials in ClinicalTrials.gov is a federal mandate. Case Western Reserve University was found to be a top performer in a recent study of all clinical trials (not just cancer) listed on this si...

A tumor’s immune response to a single dose of the HER2 inhibitor trastuzumab predicted which patients with HER2-positive breast cancer would respond to the drug on a more long-term basis, according to the results of a study published recently in Clinical Cancer Research. In addition, Vinay Varadan,...

Faster, cheaper test predicts who needs chemotherapy or just hormonal regimen For women with the most common type of breast cancer, a new way to analyze magnetic resonance images (MRI) data appears to distinguish reliably between patients who would need only hormonal treatment and those who also nee...