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Fifty-Two from Twelve Million: Scientists Find the Genes that Set into Motion Age-Related Macular Degeneration
CLEVELAND – December 14, 2015 – In one of the latest examples of precision medicine, teams of geneticists from nine countries, involving more than 100 scientists, analyzed the genes of more than 33,000 individuals in the hope of finding genetic variations responsible for age-related macular…
CWRU researchers laying groundwork for new type of pain relief
Win federal grant to examine high-frequency electrical stimulation to spinal cord A researcher at ÃÛÌÒAPP has been awarded a four-year, $2.4 million federal grant to uncover how high-frequency electrical stimulation to the spinal cord reduces or eliminates chronic…
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Cultural Competency Series December 2015
As 2015 is coming to a close, we would like to thank Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) research community for reviewing our Cultural Competency Series features, both in Newsletters and on the website. We are planning to continue the Series next year on a quarterly basis, so please keep…
CWRU researchers building digital pathology tools to predict cancer outcomes
Receive National Institutes of Health grants to lead image-analysis efforts Anant Madabushi ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers have been awarded two grants totaling $3.16 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create analytic software for managing, annotating, sharing…
CWRU researcher lands grant to build stealthy brain tumor treatment
Combining nanotechnology with traditional chemotherapy drug and resistance-inhibitors A ÃÛÌÒAPP researcher has received a five-year, $2.82 million National Institutes of Health grant to make, in essence, stealth bombs that slip past the brain’s defenses to attack an…
Protein-RNA structure hints at how viruses commandeer human proteins
Researchers at ÃÛÌÒAPP and the University of Michigan have produced the first image of an important human protein as it binds with ribonucleic acid (RNA), a discovery that could offer clues to how some viruses, including HIV, control expression of their genetic…
NASA Glenn Research Center, CWRU Fusion partner to commercialize new water-purification technology
Cleveland Water Alliance also part of joint effort aimed at regional economic development NASA Glenn Research Center scientists and students in ÃÛÌÒAPP’s interdisciplinary Fusion program are studying a novel water-purification technology and how to commercialize it. Senior…
Turning Foe to Friend: Stem Cell Treatment Mediates Harmful Immune Response Following Spinal Cord Injury in Pre-Clinical Trials
When a blunt-force blow injures the spinal cord, the body’s immune system can be both friend and foe. Sensing the injury, the immune system dispatches an inflammatory response composed of specialized cells called macrophages to dispose of dead tissue. However, together with the debris and blood…
Cultural Competency and the Informed Consent Process
Research participants have commonly been found to lack basic understanding of fundamental aspects of the studies in which they are participating. The informed consent process is one of many aspects of research that should be periodically examined in an attempt to restore trust in the research…
CWRU biologists find keys to driving a cockroach
Sensorimotor neurons in central complex encode for movements Researchers at ÃÛÌÒAPP have identified neurons in a cockroach’s brain that control whether the insect walks slow or fast, turns right or left or downshifts to climb. By selectively stimulating these same neurons,…