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National team to expand CWRU research restoring amputees’ sense of touch
Dustin Tyler created this version of the prosthetic arm, which only can be used in the lab. ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers who helped restore a sense of touch to amputees in a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs lab in Cleveland are finalizing contract negotiations for a $4.4 million…
Novel Peptide Shows Promise in Penetrating Heart Attack Scar Tissue to Regenerate Cardiac Nerves and Avert Dangerous Arrhythmias
Case Western Reserve’s chemical compound aimed at restoring spinal cord function may have an additional purpose: stopping potentially fatal arrhythmias after heart attack.  Case Western Reserve neurosciences professor Jerry Silver, PhD, long has believed that lessons learned over decades from…
Novel peptide shows promise in penetrating heart attack scar tissue to regenerate cardiac nerves and avert dangerous arrhythmias
Oregon scientists use same peptide supplied by Case Western Reserve scientist that reconnected nerves in spinal cord-injured animals Jerry Silver Case Western Reserve’s chemical compound aimed at restoring spinal cord function may have an additional purpose: stopping potentially fatal…
Cultural Competency and the Research Process
Cultural Competence in Research: Annotated Bibliography. The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (2009 & 2010) Cultural competence in research Cultural competency in research has been defined as: The ability of researchers and research staff to provide high quality…
Case Western Reserve Scientists Identify Proteins Likely to Trigger Psoriasis
Case Western Reserve scientists have taken a huge leap toward identifying root causes of psoriasis, an inflammatory skin condition affecting 125 million people around the world. Of the roughly 50,000 proteins in the human body, researchers have zeroed in on four that appear most likely to…
Coenzyme A Plays Leading Role in Nitric Oxide Function So Essential to Cell Metabolism
Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center researchers and physicians have discovered that the molecule known as coenzyme A plays a key role in cell metabolism by regulating the actions of nitric oxide. Cell metabolism is the ongoing process of chemical transformations…
Understanding Cultural Competency: Definitions and Concepts
Adapted from: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH); and the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (CECP) What is cultural competency? Culture has been defined as: An integrated pattern of learned beliefs, values and behaviors that…
Researchers Identify New Gene Mutations Linked to Colorectal Cancer in African American Patients
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified new gene mutations unique to colon cancers in African Americans – the population with the highest incidence and death rates of any group for this disease.  This discovery – namely, that colorectal cancers appear different on a molecular…
Cancer treatment potential discovered in gene repair mechanism
Protein regulates action of gene-repair route where cancer cells are met with fatal inhospitality Case Western Reserve researchers have identified a two-pronged therapeutic approach that shows great potential for weakening and then defeating cancer cells. The team’s complex mix of genetic and…
Cancer Treatment Potential Discovered in Gene Repair Mechanism
Case Western Reserve researchers have identified a two-pronged therapeutic approach that shows great potential for weakening and then defeating cancer cells. The team’s complex mix of genetic and biochemical experiments unearthed a way to increase the presence of a tumor-suppressing protein which,…