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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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Researchers inhibit cancer metastases via novel steps
Blocking action of gene enhancers halts spread of tumor cells In one of the first successes of its kind, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and six other institutions have inhibited the spreading of cancer cells from one part of the body to another. In doing so,…
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The presence of sexual violence in neighborhoods erodes feelings of safety for women—but not men
Feelings about the frequency of rape or other forms of sexual assault in a neighborhood are significantly tied to women’s—but not men’s—perceptions of its safety, according to new research. However, both men and women report feeling less safe in their neighborhoods based on the presence of other…
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Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing receives grant to increase number of nurses with PhDs
The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University was selected for the second straight year as one of 31 schools to receive a grant to increase the number of nurses earning doctorate degrees. The schools comprise the fifth cohort of grantees of the Robert Wood Johnson…
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$3.6 million grant aims to improve access to dental care for low-income children
Case Western Reserve researchers encouraging family doctors to include dental-health screenings, referrals during wellness checkup visits Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine will expand an effort to improve the dental health of low-income children with a…