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Obesity can also alter a young person’s likelihood of developing cancer later in life A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults. The meta-analysis d...

Statewide volunteer Patent Pro Bono initiative secures second patent, more on the way Securing a patent to protect an idea is time-consuming and expensive. Just ask Matthew Stephenson, who’s looking to patent his board game Battle Mound, bringing together chance and strategy—with “a measured level ...

Our closest biological relatives, the African apes, are the only animals that walk on their knuckles; CWRU researchers discovered why Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have cracked the evolutionary mystery of why chimpanzees and gorillas walk on their knuckles: The short explanation is ...

Between 3 and 8 percent of children in the United States identify as LGBTQ, according to the Williams Institute at UCLA. But for children in foster care, the number is as high as 19 percent. Children with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities are at greater risk for issues such as physi...

Case Western Reserve researchers reveal how anatomically distinct microcircuit brain networks suppress each other, compete and collaborate Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found a previously unseen pattern among the rapid-firing neurons inside the brain, one that reveals how disti...

Case Western Reserve University computational imaging center gets $3.15 million federal grant Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) is leading a partnership working toward the first clinical trials to determine the aggressiveness of—a...

What leads to risky sexual behavior in adolescence seems to vary by gender, according to new research from Case Western Reserve University. For boys, there’s a direct connection to child abuse. For girls, marijuana use appears to be a risk factor. “In social science research there are so many fact...

Case Western Reserve University researchers make dynamic advances with new atomically thin device Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing atomically thin “drumheads” able to receive and transmit signals across a radio frequency range far greater than what we can hear with the h...

Case Western Reserve University, along with Cleveland Marshall College of Law and the Metropolitan Bar Association, provides legal expertise in county’s Bail Task Force, which recently released its much-anticipated report Money shouldn’t be the only reason defendants are detained during bail hearing...

Case Western Reserve, Stanford University and Uganda Heart Institute address childbirth issues for women with rheumatic heart disease Today, most people in the United States rarely think of rheumatic heart disease (RHD)—or the rheumatic fever that causes it—as more than a historical footnote. Rheum...