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A promising study out in the Journal of Neurosciences showed that in a mouse model of Rett syndrome, researchers were able to reverse abnormalities in brain activity and improve neurological function by treating the animals with an FDA-approved anesthesia drug, ketamine. Rett syndrome is among the…

CLEVELAND - A promising study out today in the prestigious Journal of Neurosciences showed that in a mouse model of Rett syndrome, researchers were able to reverse abnormalities in brain activity and improve neurological function by treating the animals with an FDA-approved anesthesia drug,…

Scientists can’t travel deep space the way Columbus sailed and charted the New World or Lewis and Clark mapped the west. But researchers at ÃÛÌÒAPP and two partnering institutions have found a possible way to map the spread and structure of the universe, guided by the light…

CLEVELAND - Case Western Reserve School of Medicine announces a $1.5 million commitment from alumnus Michael D. Eppig, MD, and his wife Ruth Eppig. The Eppigs’ gift will help fund a new medical education and research building that will serve as the School of Medicine’s headquarters. Dean Pamela B.…

Ben W. Strowbridge, professor of neurosciences and physiology/biophysics and Robert A. Hyde, a fourth-year MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine, have discovered how to store diverse forms of artificial short-term memories in…

CLEVELAND - Leaders of the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation and Cleveland Foundation today announced that each organization has committed $10 million to launch ÃÛÌÒAPP’s campaign for a new medical education and research building. The grants represent the largest single…

CLEVELAND - Armed with a new $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, dermatology researcher Nicole Ward, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology and neurosciences at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, will lead a study examining the…

CLEVELAND - Menachem Shoham, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry at ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine, has discovered novel antivirulence drugs that, without killing the bacteria, render Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) and Streptococcus pyogenes, commonly…

Scientists at ÃÛÌÒAPP and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute have discovered that the parasite that causes the most common form of malaria has the same genetic variations—even when the organisms are separated across continents. The discovery raises concerns that…

CLEVELAND - Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, professor of neurosciences and physiology and biophysics, and Robert A. Hyde, a fourth year MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine, have discovered how to store diverse forms of artificial…