Science + Tech
April 09, 2015
A cheap and efficient route to smart homes and offices Case Western Reserve University engineers are making sensors that can be integrated into existing materials, transforming today’s homes and commercial buildings into energy-saving, tech-savvy “smart buildings.” Their work is funded by a…
April 03, 2015
After discovering a unique group of people resistant to tuberculosis (TB) infection, Case Western Reserve researchers are leading an international team dedicated to understanding exactly how they fight off a disease that claims 1.5 million lives each year. The team’s goal is to use lessons…
March 31, 2015
Amphibian blends to surroundings, changing skin from smooth to spiny A frog in Ecuador’s western Andean cloud forest changes skin texture in minutes, appearing to mimic the texture it sits on. Originally discovered by a Case Western Reserve University PhD student and her husband, a projects…
March 30, 2015
Prepared by Jan Hanson, MPH – Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Valerie Vinson, M.Ed, LSW – University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center Community Outreach Program What is unconscious bias? Unconscious bias, also known as implicit bias or implicit social cognition, is the concept that…
March 23, 2015
A surgical sedative may hold the key to reversing the devastating symptoms of a neurodevelopmental disorder found almost exclusively in females. Ketamine, used primarily for operative procedures, has shown such promise in mouse models that Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic researchers soon…
March 23, 2015
The concept was simple: If two compounds each individually show promise in preventing colon cancer, surely it’s worth trying the two together to see if even greater impact is possible. In this instance, Case Western Reserve cancer researcher Li Li, MD, PhD, could not have been more prescient. Not…
March 19, 2015
Half a century ago, a concentrated global effort nearly wiped a disfiguring tropical disease from the face of the earth. Now, says Case Western Reserve’s James W. Kazura, MD, it’s time to complete the work. In a perspective column in the Feb.19 New England Journal of Medicine, Kazura responded to…
March 17, 2015
Habits, physique and more transform to hunt different critters Ryan Martin, assistant professor of biology and lead author of the study A species of fish that normally eats smaller fish changes in predictable ways when isolated from its prey, research led by a Case Western Reserve University…
March 16, 2015
Case Western Reserve researchers play key role in clinical trials’ groundbreaking results Case Western Reserve University researchers are part of an international team that discovered that a common herpes drug reduces HIV-1 levels—even when patients do not have herpes. Published…
March 13, 2015
Case Western Reserve researchers are part of an international team that has discovered that a common herpes drug reduces HIV-1 levels — even when patients do not have herpes. Published online in Clinical Infectious Diseases, the finding rebuts earlier scientific assumptions that Valacyclovir…