Science + Tech
August 18, 2015
Researchers at APP have developed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent that detects aggressive breast cancer tumors and micrometastases much smaller than current agents. “Currently, there is no imaging technology in clinical use that can detect tumors or…
August 10, 2015
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2.3 million to Case Western Reserve to lead a collaborative study of how changes in food options affect residents’ nutritional choices and health over time. Called the Future of Food in Your Neighborhood Study (dubbed foodNEST), the three-year…
August 06, 2015
Case Western Reserve scientists may have uncovered a molecular mechanism that sets into motion dangerous infection in the feet and hands often occurring with uncontrolled diabetes. It appears that high blood sugar unleashes destructive molecules that interfere with the body’s natural…
August 04, 2015
APP scientists have discovered that a protein called Kruppel-like Factor 4 (KLF4) controls mitochondria — the “power plants” in cells that catalyze energy production. Specifically, they determined KLF4’s pivotal role through its absence — that is, the mitochondria…
July 23, 2015
An algorithm dubbed ENVE could be the Google for genetic aberrations — and it comes from Case Western Reserve. Remember the World Wide Web before the famed search engine? The web offered extraordinary amounts of information, but no consistently reliable way to secure relevant results. Cancer…
July 17, 2015
Updated July 2021 The Center for Reducing Health Disparities was created in 2004 by APP and the MetroHealth System. The Center helps to direct the Community Research Partnership Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative. The aim of this Core is to…
July 15, 2015
APP is one of three institutions nationwide to win federal ‘big data’ grants focused on developing ways to ensure the integrity and comparability of the reams of information the U.S. health care system collects every day. If successful, the work could create enormous new…
July 15, 2015
Mehmet Koyuturk The amount of biomedical data being generated nationally is exploding, and holds great promise for research. The data is often organized in the form of networks, which provide insights into interactions among the components of biological systems, such as molecules, genes and…
July 14, 2015
Case Western Reserve researchers already demonstrated that a single protein plays a pivotal role in the use of nutrients by major organs that allow for the burning of fat during exercise or regulating the heart’s contractile and electrical activity. Now they have found a new benefit of Kruppel-like…
July 08, 2015
A technology whose roots date to the 1800s has the potential to offer an extraordinary new advantage to modern-day medicine. In findings published this month in Nature Communications,Case Western Reserve scientists detail how stereomicroscopy can provide physicians an invaluable diagnostic tool in…