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Full-length serotonin receptor structure seen for first time
High-powered microscope shows receptor at rest, with focus on drug development A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have used Nobel Prize-winning microscope technology to see full-length serotonin receptors for the first time. The tiny…
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To tackle rheumatic heart disease, researchers borrow from AIDS playbook: taking services to the people
Uganda “treatment cascade” increases patient continuation in care Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been invested in Africa over the past 15 years to improve care for millions suffering from the HIV/AIDS epidemic, yet health systems on the continent continue to struggle. What if the…
Researchers uncover link between heart attacks and inflammatory bowel disease
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute researchers Muhammad Panhwar, MD, and Mahazarin Ginwalla, MD, recently concluded a study of more than 22 million patients that suggests a strong connection between Inflammatory Bowel…
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Researchers discover new enzymes central to cell function
Enzymes open door for targeted therapeutics across disease spectrum Doctors have long treated heart attacks, improved asthma symptoms and cured impotence by increasing levels of a single molecule in the body: nitric oxide. The tiny molecule can change how proteins function. But new research…
Richard Martin, MD, receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Neonatal Research
Richard Martin, MD Richard Martin, MD, professor of pediatrics, reproductive biology, and physiology at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, and director of neonatal research programs and Drusinsky-Fanaroff Chair in Neonatology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, has…
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“Minorities in Medicine”
In honor of Black History Month, the Daniel-Hale Williams Pre Medical Society will host Dee Banks, chief of infectious diseases at UPMC Horizon. Banks will talk about her experience as a minority in the field of medicine. This event, titled “Minorities in Medicine,” will be held Wednesday, Feb.…
Imaging is Us
As part of our 175th anniversary celebration, we are focusing on a different aspect of our history. This month it’s imaging - and our record goes back more than a century. In 1905 Walter C. Hill, MD, was appointed the first radiologist at Lakeside Hospital, about when the institution first…
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Researchers reverse symptoms in neurologic disease model
Study provides hope for Rett syndrome patients and others across autism spectrum It is a parent’s nightmare: A child is born apparently healthy, then stops meeting developmental milestones at one year old. Her verbal and motor skills vanish, and irregular breathing, seizures, and a host of other…
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Medicine’s Kavita Arora explores a physician’s duty to warn in age of social media
Kavita Arora, an assistant professor of reproductive biology and bioethics for the School of Medicine, co-wrote a piece for STAT titled “An ultrasound on Instagram suggested the baby could be in danger. Does a physician have a duty to warn?” Arora and her co-author discussed the recent situation…
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Case Western Reserve and Sangamo Therapeutics announce $11 million NIH grant for study of gene-edited T cells for the viral eradication of HIV
Case Western Reserve University and Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. recently announced the award of an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a planned study of gene-edited T cells designed to eradicate persistent HIV infection in patients receiving anti-retroviral therapy, a…