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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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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 w...
March 23, 2015
The Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium is accepting abstracts for the 2015 symposium, which will be held on May 8. The symposium is an annual student-organized event showcasing the outstanding research of graduate students from the School of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine a...
March 23, 2015
The Schubert Center for Child Studies and the School of Medicine/University Hospitals Case Medical Center Psychiatry Grand Rounds will present a lecture titled "Assessing and Responding to Violence Risk in Juveniles." The lecture will feature Charles Scott, professor of clinical psychiatry and chief...
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 a...
March 19, 2015
As a precursor to the showing of the documentary Ken Burns Presents: Cancer—The Emperor of All Maladies, ideastream (90.3 WCPN, WVIZ/PBS and bewell.ideastream.org) has embarked on a project to cover regional cancer stories from a range of perspectives. Within this series, the Case Comprehensive Canc...
March 18, 2015
The Cleveland Digestive Diseases Research Core Center will present a lecture on “Alcoholic Hepatitis: A Cytokine Mediated Disease Looking for a Cure,” on Wednesday, March 25, from noon to 1 p.m. in Wolstein Research Building, Room 1413.
Pierre Gholam, associate professor of medicine and medical dir...
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 online in Clinical ...
March 12, 2015
Case Western Reserve scientists have discovered that speed matters when it comes to how messenger RNA (mRNA) deciphers critical information within the genetic code — the complex chain of instructions critical to sustaining life. The investigators’ findings, which appear in the March 12 journal Cell,...
March 10, 2015
Thanks to significant improvements in admissions selectivity and other factors, Case Western Reserve’s School of Law posted a five-point gain in this spring’s U.S. News & World Report rankings, to No. 59—the largest increase of any of the university programs assessed in 2015.
“Credit for this progr...
March 09, 2015
As part of the Cleveland Digestive Diseases Research Core Center Seminar Series, Professor of Medicine Fabio Cominelli will present “The Role of the TL1A and DR3 in Intestinal Inflammation.”
The presentation will take place on Wednesday, March 11, from noon to 1 p.m. at the Iris S. and Bert L. Wols...