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Art history’s Henry Adams shapes legacy of Andrew Wyeth at a pivotal period of reconsideration In the world of painting, rare is the combination of critical acclaim and commercial success. As such, the enormous popularity and prosperity enjoyed by realist Andrew Wyeth led to his very name becoming i...

Also receives major grant from Stand Up to Cancer to “starve cancer cells to death” Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have been named to a new colorectal cancer Dream Team that was announced in April at the annual meeting of the American Asso...

Mothers smoking crack cocaine during pregnancy and its lingering effects on their children are the focus of 20-plus years of ongoing research by Case Western Reserve University While the crack cocaine epidemic peaked in the late 1980s, its effects are still causing harm to an estimated 3 million tee...

In the United States, almost three of every 1,000 children are born with a detectable level of hearing loss in one or both ears. An early-stage researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is receiving a major grant to help address the problem in an innovative way. Martin Basch,...

School of Medicine’s biochemistry department team, in partnership with Q2 Pharma, to develop antivirulence agents that disarm bacteria of deadly toxins Case Western Reserve University and Q2 Pharma Ltd., an Israeli biopharmaceutical company, have signed a two-year option to license small molecule, a...

Findings show the family, Palaeothentidae, was once widespread across the continent but add to extinction doubts The discovery of three extinct species and new insights to a fourth indicates a little-known family of marsupials, the Palaeothentidae, was diverse and existed over a wide range of South ...

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have developed a breakthrough, noninvasive technique to develop stem cells strongly relevant to the study of Down syndrome. Writing in the journal STEM CELLS Translational Medicine, the researchers detail their development of an ap...

I-Corps@Ohio program aims to advance research into products for medical treatments or surgeries Four medical-technology research teams at Case Western Reserve University will participate in focused entrepreneurial training through I-Corps@Ohio, an Ohio Department of Higher Education initiative creat...

More than a third of HIV patients develop oral conditions from immune systems compromised by the virus and its treatment, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) While advances in HIV treatment have dramatically improved patient lifespans and quality of life, nagging side effects remain...

New study also provides drug screening platform for broad therapeutic development A multi-institutional team led by researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have grown stem cells from children with a devastating neurological disease to help explain how different genetic back...