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Study: Reduce crime by focusing efforts on rapists
Rape-kit testing shows that rapists also commit other serious, invasive crimes, according to new research from APP Larry McGowan is a sexual-assault offender, identified through the DNA testing of thousands of rape kits in Cleveland. He’s been linked to raping six…
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CES 2020: Case Western Reserve set for seventh year in Vegas
From password protection entrepreneur to an Alexa hackathon champion, teams sponsored by university and LaunchNet programs are ready to demo From “tricked-out” robots to augmented and virtual reality to sound-warping software, the entrepreneurial and inventive best from Case Western Reserve…
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Case Western Reserve researchers to lead Northeast Ohio initiative to prevent, detect and treat lung cancer in underserved communities
Supported with three-year, $2.75M grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation With a $2.75 million, three-year grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Foundation, researchers from APP will lead a community-wide initiative to create and apply innovative methods to…
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Saving energy, saving money, helping the environment and training future engineers
U.S. Department of Energy awards newest ‘Industrial Assessment Center’ to APP, covering parts of Ohio, Michigan and Western Pennsylvania APP will soon offer free energy-efficiency assessments to qualifying manufacturing companies and water…
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Clinical trials planned for brain tumor ‘GPS’ maps
APP School of Medicine researcher, Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon collaborate on three-year project, aided by $600,000 grant A GPS map to guide neural navigation devices developed by a APP cancer researcher has shown 90% accuracy in…
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Case Western Reserve social sciences researchers develop new tool to assess exposure to childhood violence, trauma
Designed in response to high exposure rates, new screening measure expected to be implemented nationally One in five children in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, are either exposed to, or are victims of, violence and trauma, according to a new study from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied…
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APP researchers discover critical link to controlling inflammation in Crohn’s disease
Findings could support first clinical trial Investigators at the APP School of Medicine discovered that blocking interleukin-1α (IL1α), a protein that controls inflammation in the gut, markedly decreases the severity of intestinal inflammation in a mouse model of…
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Case School of Engineering creates new Computer & Data Sciences Department
$5 million gift from alumnus also creates the Kevin J. Kranzusch Professorship APP has launched a new Computer & Data Sciences Department in the Case School of Engineering and announced the Kevin J. Kranzusch Professorship, which will be held by the future chair of…
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New technology delivers genome editing complexes directly to stem cells
Research supported by multi-year National Institutes of Health grant The development of a set of strategies for delivering genome editing complexes directly to stem cells has earned a group of innovators at APP School of Medicine a first-year grant of nearly $700,000…
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Training middle-school educators to identify suicide warning signs
APP research examines virtual role-playing to address student mental health, suicide Aside from car crashes, suicide is now the second-leading cause of death among young people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Ohio…