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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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July 10, 2015
A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine scholar was one of only 30 medical students from across North America selected to participate in the 2015 American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Tutored Research and Education for Kidney Scholars (TREKS) program, an initiative of the society’s Workf...
July 09, 2015
Case Western Reserve scientists find mouse models of IBD most closely resembling human forms of the illness
Fabio Cominelli
A technology whose roots date to the 1800s has the potential to offer a new advantage to modern-day medicine. In findings published this month in Nature Communications, Case ...
July 08, 2015
A technology whose roots date to the 1800s has the potential to offer an extraordinary new advantage to modern-day medicine. In findings published this month in Nature Communications,Case Western Reserve scientists detail how stereomicroscopy can provide physicians an invaluable diagnostic tool in a...
July 08, 2015
Randall Cebul
A new study published in the July issue of Health Affairs, the preeminent journal on health care policy, found that poor, uninsured patients who enrolled in a Medicaid-like insurance plan had better care and health outcomes than those who remained uninsured. In addition, across all en...
June 17, 2015
P. Hunter Peckham, the Donnell Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics at Case Western Reserve University, was recently recognized by the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) with the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career in research on the use of functional ...
June 12, 2015
Research focuses on select tissues injured through disease, surgery and transplants, but early findings indicate potential for broad applications
The concept sounds like the stuff of science fiction: take a pill, and suddenly new tissues grow to replace damaged ones.
Researchers at Case Western Res...
June 12, 2015
The Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program awarded Kath Bogie, adjunct assistant professor of orthopaedics, a $561,850 grant.
Bogie, who is a principal investigator with the Advanced Platform Technology Center of Excellence at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans A...
June 08, 2015
Instrument’s super-magnification of retina would enhance early detection of eye disease and could accelerate developing new eye therapies
Krzysztof Palczewski
Imagine an instrument that peers deep inside the eye and sees how well the retina’s cells function. Such advanced technology would provide ...
June 02, 2015
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University combined finely crafted nanoparticles with one of nature’s potent disrupters to prevent the spread of triple-negative breast cancer in mouse models.
The highly aggressive cancer subtype is difficult to manage and the FDA has no approved targeted treatm...
May 28, 2015
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and CWRU School of Medicine to expand minority fellowship and interprofessional education
The KeyBank Foundation announced a grant of $2 million to Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University, which will support a combined effort to enhance and ex...