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Homelessness just ‘one of the concerns’ when someone is evicted
ӰƵ researchers tracked eviction in City of Cleveland, with troubling results A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University analyzed five years’ worth of eviction data from the Cleveland Housing Court and spent several weeks in court interviewing those…
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Seeking human connections across time and space
ӰƵ research team from new Human Fusions institute aims for $10 million Avatar XPrize competition; winner will best ‘transport a human’s sense, actions and presence’ to another place In 15 years at ӰƵ, Dustin Tyler has been on a mission to extend…
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Documentary has Cleveland premiere Jan. 30
New film chronicles previous 'BrainGate2' project, as ӰƵ works with University Hospitals and Cleveland FES Center to take research further, achieving natural arm, hand movements via thought Six years ago, a team of researchers from ӰƵ, University…
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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 ӰƵ School of Medicine say they have…
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2020 is the Year of the Nurse and Midwife
200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale spurs international celebration; Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing leads Northeast Ohio commemoration The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing is collaborating with nurses in academic and clinical centers across Northeast Ohio to mark…
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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 ӰƵ School of Medicine to further their work on developing drugs to treat Huntington’s disease (HD) and other neurological disorders. Xin Qi, an…
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Troubleshooting Titan: bubbles, submarines and cryogenic seas
ӰƵ and NASA Glenn scientists aim to keep effervescence from obstructing scientific equipment on spacecraft in frigid seas of Saturn’s largest moon If scientists someday send a spacecraft to the surface of Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn, it could very well be a small…
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CRISPR: More than just for gene editing?
ӰƵ 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,…
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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 ӰƵ 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: ӰƵ 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 ӰƵ…