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Findings open the way to more precise diagnoses and treatments of Alzheimer’s disease
ӰƵ-led research team discovers why some cases result in rapid decline and death An international team led by ӰƵ School of Medicine has made a significant breakthrough in understanding why Alzheimer’s disease progresses so rapidly in some…
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Revitalizing Northeast Ohio by boosting its manufacturing ‘community’
National Science Foundation grant funds ӰƵ-led team seeking to modernize industry as key to helping surrounding neighborhoods ӰƵ engineers, computer scientists and social scientists are leading a project to help modernize small- and…
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Different strokes: Using artificial intelligence to tell art apart
ӰƵ scientists, artists collaborate to develop art algorithm that can distinguish different painters’ brush strokes “at the bristle level” A team of scientists and art historians at ӰƵ say they have used tools of artificial intelligence (AI)…
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A new tool in the fight against rectal cancer
ӰƵ-led team to test artificial intelligence medical imaging to determine which rectal cancer patients need surgery—or can avoid it Building on its successes in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to medical imaging to enhance treatment of other diseases, a ӰƵ…
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Artificial intelligence supercomputer to ‘accelerate research’ at ӰƵ
Computer and data science chair obtains high-powered computer system with support from National Science Foundation, Ohio Department of Education More than 250 researchers across nearly two dozen research groups—from computer science to materials science to robotics—will benefit from the faster and…
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Taking antiviral aim to stop COVID-19 and possible future viruses in their tracks
Researchers at ӰƵ, Duke and Rutgers lead work to understand how the novel coronavirus’s tangled RNA could help treat infected people Scientists at ӰƵ, Duke, and Rutgers universities have identified compounds within the coronavirus genome that have…
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Researchers warn of next ‘wave’ of opioid overdose deaths
ӰƵ and Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office on front lines of another epidemic plaguing nation When Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Thomas Gilson issued a public health warning earlier this month, the cause wasn’t COVID-19—but drugs. Over a 48-hour period Nov. 6…
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New method for enabling a more reliable electric grid
U.S. Department of Energy invests $3 million in better-than-lithium batteries being developed by ӰƵ chemical engineers ӰƵ chemical engineers are working on a new generation of smaller, safer and less expensive batteries they say could allow…
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What constitutes major surgery versus a minor procedure?
ӰƵ’s School of Dental Medicine researchers lead multi-disciplinary national study to develop guidelines for patients on blood thinners While researching how to preemptively manage patients on blood thinners for endodontic surgery last year, dental medicine professor…
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Scientists develop novel ‘shapeshifting’ liquid crystal
Physicists from ӰƵ, Tufts say they’ve remotely altered microscopic surface; could lead to applications for microchips, or ‘liquid tools’ Physicists at ӰƵ and Tufts University say they’ve changed the shape of a flat liquid crystal surface…