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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 proteins—approximately ...
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CWRU professor joins scholars from around U.S. in national call-to-action to prevent gun violence
A Case Western Reserve University professor is joining an interdisciplinary group of 19 experts in academia from around the country speaking out against gun violence. Daniel J. Flannery, a professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, is part of a national call-...
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National Jurist recognizes Alison Epperson as Law Student of the Year
The third-year law student with “unparalleled character” at Case Western Reserve University rose to national prominence through her work on chronic traumatic encephalopathy Near the end of her first semester in law school, Alison Epperson’s longtime boyfriend, Zac Easter, took his own life after sus...
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Case Western Reserve, Cleveland State and Mercyhurst to collaborate on new cybersecurity focus
Three academic institutions—Case Western Reserve, Mercyhurst and Cleveland State universities—each maintain nationally recognized programs in the science of cybersecurity. Today, they announced plans to share their individual expertise and collectively form the North Coast Cyber Research and Trainin...
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2018 Cleveland Humanities Festival explores subject all too human: health
In a region defined by health care and humanities excellence, the third annual festival joins 25+ cultural institutions for a month of free events in Northeast Ohio—starting March 15 Health—and its absence—has inspired centuries of art and ingenuity. Exploring the unique role of health in human end...
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Battling human trafficking
Case Western Reserve University symposium on March 2 to explore solutions for a crime growing nationally and in Ohio At this moment, there are more than an estimated 30 million enslaved people around the world. Ohio is indicative of the problem: The state ranks fourth in the number of sex-trafficki...
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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 combina...
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Living human tracheas
Case Western Reserve University researchers make natural windpipe replacement alternative to synthetic scaffolding now being used Biomedical engineers at Case Western Reserve University are growing tracheas by coaxing cells to form three distinct tissue types after assembling them into a tube struct...
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New imaging technology may help predict aggressiveness of lung cancer
Research supported by a recent $3.16 million National Cancer Institute grant Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic are leading development of a computerized tissue-imaging program that could soon help identify which lung cancer patients are likely to face an earlier recurrence of the disease. W...
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Do we really know how Earth's inner core formed?
Case Western Reserve planetary scientists challenge long-held understanding of how solid center could have been created