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Molecular ‘brake’ in brain development could hold key to treating multiple sclerosis
Discovery led by Institute for Glial Sciences at Case Western Reserve University suggests new path to regenerative therapies for MS
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August 04, 2015
Case Western Reserve University scientists have discovered that a protein called Kruppel-like Factor 4 (KLF4) controls mitochondria — the “power plants” in cells that catalyze energy production. Specifically, they determined KLF4’s pivotal role through its absence — that is, the mitochondria malfunc...
July 27, 2015
An algorithm dubbed ENVE could be the Google for genetic aberrations—and it comes from Case Western Reserve University.
Remember the World Wide Web before the famed search engine? The web offered extraordinary amounts of information, but no consistently reliable way to secure relevant results.
Can...
July 23, 2015
An algorithm dubbed ENVE could be the Google for genetic aberrations — and it comes from Case Western Reserve.
Remember the World Wide Web before the famed search engine? The web offered extraordinary amounts of information, but no consistently reliable way to secure relevant results.
Cancer resea...
July 23, 2015
In collaboration with Tohoku University in Japan, the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Case School of Engineering will hold the Data Science in Life Science and Engineering Collaboration and Symposium July 29-30.
The symposium brings together researchers from Case Western Rese...
July 21, 2015
A Case Western Reserve University medical student known for always giving to others now needs the community’s assistance as he recovers from a near-deadly injury suffered during a cancer research fundraiser.
Life Flight had to transport second-year student Brady Tucker to MetroHealth Medical Center...
July 15, 2015
Case Western Reserve University is one of three institutions nationwide to win federal ‘big data’ grants focused on developing ways to ensure the integrity and comparability of the reams of information the U.S. health care system collects every day. If successful, the work could create enormous new ...
July 15, 2015
Federal grant supports design of platform for collection, analysis of different kinds of data
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Case Western Reserve University is one of three institutions nationwide to win federal "Big Data" grants focused on developing ways to ensure the integrity and comparability of the reams of in...
July 14, 2015
Case Western Reserve researchers already demonstrated that a single protein plays a pivotal role in the use of nutrients by major organs that allow for the burning of fat during exercise or regulating the heart’s contractile and electrical activity. Now they have found a new benefit of Kruppel-like ...
July 14, 2015
Irwin. H. Lepow Medical Student Research Day—originally scheduled for Feb. 19—will be held Friday, July 17, from noon to 5 p.m. in the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building.
The daylong event celebrates student research in the medical field. The event will include poster and oral presentat...
July 13, 2015
Case Western Reserve researchers already demonstrated that a single protein plays a pivotal role in the use of nutrients by major organs that allow for the burning of fat during exercise or regulating the heart’s contractile and electrical activity. Now they have found a new benefit of Kruppel-like ...