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ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ and RoadPrintz Inc. sign license agreement to advance robotic street-painting technology
Automated truck invention makes road-painting safer, faster, cheaper A new invention by a former Cleveland Heights auto repair-shop owner and ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ engineering professor promises to make painting streets cheaper, faster and less risky to road workers. Their company is c...
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Possible Alzheimer’s breakthrough suggested
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers say newly found protein is bio-marker for disease; suggest suppression of ‘aggregatin’ could lead to future treatments to slow Alzheimer’s progression Researchers at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine say they have ident...
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$1M, two-year grant from Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust to advance CWRU research on therapies for Huntington’s disease
A $1 million, two-year grant from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust will allow researchers from the ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ School of Medicine to further their work on developing drugs to treat Huntington’s disease (HD) and other neurological disorders. Xin Qi, an associ...
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CRISPR: More than just for gene editing?
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ researcher finds new use for revolutionary gene-splicing tool; electrochemical platform could lead to blood test for HPV, parvo or others The gene-editing tool CRISPR has been heralded as a scientific miracle destined to eradicate diseases from sickle-cell anemia to cancer, or...
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ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ 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 ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ will lead a community-wide initiative to create and apply innovative methods to prev...
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Clinical trials planned for brain tumor ‘GPS’ maps
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ 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 ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ cancer researcher has shown 90% accuracy in pinpointing...
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ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ 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 S...
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ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ researchers discover critical link to controlling inflammation in Crohn’s disease
Findings could support first clinical trial Investigators at the ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ 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 Crohn’...
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New hope for osteoporosis, more durable airplane wings
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ researcher on team that prints 3D model to prove importance of ‘transverse struts’ to long-term structure life New bone-structure research from scientists at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ, Cornell and Purdue universities could give new hope to patients suffering from osteoporosis—and su...
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Training middle-school educators to identify suicide warning signs
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ 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 alo...