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Breakthroughs from the Labs of CWRU School of Medicine Engineering ‘Live’ Replacement Joints About 500 million people globally suffer from osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease in which joint tissues break down over time. Now, backed by an award from the U.S. Depart- ment of Health and Human Serv...

Finding offers potential new target for treatment Psoriasis, a painful and uncomfortable inflammatory skin condition that affects millions worldwide, flares up from the activity of disease- and infection-protecting immune cells. In a new study, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School...

As Ron Triolo, PhD, turned up the nerve stimulator in his lab at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the research trial participant connected to the machine immediately perked up. “That’s my big toe!” he said. “If I had a big toe.” The trial participant—a military veteran w...

As Cleveland native Honey Bell-Bey finished reciting her poem, “The Transformational Power of Art,” at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, 2024, the leaders who filled the room got to their feet to deliver a standing ovation. Ho...

Monitors and medical devices beep and whirr amid gurneys rolling down a terrazzo corridor. In a high-tech simulation suite at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, a team of medical students are racing through a hospital—and against the clock—to reach their patient in the operating...

Finding offers potential new target for treatment

Research out of the Xinghong Dai's lab in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and led by postdoctoral scholar Bibekananda Sahoo recently revealed that NINJ1, a small membrane protein, actively drives plasma membrane rupture (PMR) during lytic cell death, challenging the long-standing belief ...

Beata Jastrzebska, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine, and her research team used a virtual screening approach that identified potential treatment options for a group of inherited eye diseases that cause blindness. Their work was published in PLOS Biolog...

Emily Nelson, research associate at the School of Medicine, and Darcy Freedman, the Swetland Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, will lead a webinar for the HEALing Communities Study. They will present “Tips for Engaging Coalitions to Respond to the Opioid Crisis: Lessons Learned from the H...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are known for their innovative thinking across campus—and these creative mindsets can be seen in their unique and fascinating hobbies outside of work. National Hobby Month is celebrated annually in January, leaving no better time to spotlight ...