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Tracking housing shifts and economic mobility in Cleveland’s neighborhoods
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress unveil new tool to assess city’s development The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at APP helped develop a new tool to track housing shifts and economic mobility in the…
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Big investment on the smallest matters
Case School of Engineering’s Alp Sehirlioglu wins $500,000 National Science Foundation  grant for research into atomic-scale structures Alp Sehirlioglu, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at APP, is considered a master at…
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Study: Ibuprofen, acetaminophen more effective than opioids in treating dental pain
Opioids are not among the most effective—or longest lasting—options available for relief from acute dental pain, a new examination of the results from more than 460 published studies has found. Ibuprofen and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) alone or in combination with…
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How do children develop immunity to malaria as they become older?
Case Western Reserve researcher investigates the role of innate immunity Across the world, more than 200 million cases of malaria and nearly 500,000 deaths from the disease occur annually—more than 90 percent of which happen in Africa. Children in Africa can be diagnosed with malaria two or three…
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"Perspectives on Global Climate Change"
National Academy of Engineering conference comes to APP May 24 Energy and engineering innovators at APP—driven by a growing urgency to adapt and respond to global warming and their commitment to educate Northeast Ohio on scientific issues—are…
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Certain PTSD therapies prove effective after treatment stops: study
Reducing severity of PTSD symptoms long-term holds significant public-health and economic implications Both civilians and military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reap long-term benefits from psychotherapies used for short-term treatment, according to a new study from Case…
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Four APP medtech research projects selected for State of Ohio’s focused commercialization training
I-Corps@Ohio program aims to advance research into products for medical treatments or surgeries Four medical-technology research teams at APP will participate in focused entrepreneurial training through I-Corps@Ohio, an Ohio Department of Higher Education initiative…
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Case Western Reserve, Cleveland Museum of Art to present plans for interim public green space on jointly owned development site
Property would be open for community use until long-term plans determined Nearly two years after APP and the Cleveland Museum of Art launched their collaboration on the Nord Family Greenway, the institutions are partnering on another public landscape effort—this one…
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Case Western Reserve’s John “Chip” Tilton receives prestigious Hartwell Foundation Award for research on enzyme-replacement therapy
Case Western Reserve named among The Hartwell Foundation's Top Ten Centers of Biomedical Research Inborn errors of metabolism are rare single gene defects that involve mutations of enzyme proteins in key metabolic pathways. Many mutations are lethal to children at birth or in early childhood and…
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Pesky mosquitoes provide neural implant solution
APP researchers engineer better way to insert more flexible neural implants into soft brain tissue Brain scientists face a dilemma: Conventional wire implants are rigid and can sometimes traumatize that sensitive, vital organ; but softer materials now being tested by…