News tagged with case western
Researchers develop 'wireless' activation of brain circuits
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Traditionally, stimulating nerves or brain tissue involves cumbersome wiring and a sharp metal electrode. But a team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University is going "wireless."
Accidental discovery has potential for new applications in packaging
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 06, 2009 |
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A recent discovery at Case Western Reserve University may help keep food and drugs safer and fresher longer and electronic equipment dryer and more secure than ever before - all at a lower cost.
Research examines how plants produce high-energy storage organs
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how plants produce storage organs that humans use as food would be a valuable tool for science and for a hungry world.
Time is what we make of it
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Ask anyone working on a project, and the biggest complaint one hears is "There's not enough time." But instead of more time, maybe what they need is a change of perception.
Physicists create BlackMax to search for dimensions in space at the Large Hadron Collider
Nov 07, 2008 |
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A team of theoretical and experimental physicists, with participants from Case Western Reserve University, have designed a new black hole simulator called BlackMax to search for evidence that extra dimensions might exist ...
Scientists find gene that modifies severity of cystic fibrosis lung disease
Feb 25, 2009 |
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Researchers have discovered a gene that modifies the severity of lung disease in people with the lethal genetic condition, cystic fibrosis, pointing to possible new targets for treatment, according to a new study in Nature.
Researchers uncover genetic basis for some birth defects
Nov 10, 2008 |
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A multidisciplinary research team at Case Western Reserve University led by Gary Landreth, Ph.D., a professor in the School of Medicine's Department of Neurosciences, has uncovered a common genetic pathway for a number of ...
Researchers looking at light-induced toxins in air and water
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Is the air we breathe on a daily basis slowly killing us? It may not be that severe, but the air we breathe and water we drink may be more harmful than we realize.
Researchers find mechanism underlying alt. splicing of premessenger RNA into messenger RNA
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Dec 24, 2008 |
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An international research team led by Tim Nilsen, Ph.D., a professor of medicine and biochemistry and the director of the School of Medicine's Center for RNA Molecular Biology, has discovered an unexpected mechanism governing ...
Can't chalk it up to 'baby fat'
Dec 29, 2008 |
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Despite recent widespread media attention given to studies that have indicated one-third of American children have a weight problem, a new study shows just one-third of children who are overweight or obese actually receive ...
Genes involved in antibiotic resistance vary within a species
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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The recent emergence of multidrug resistance (MDR) in Acinetobacter baumannii, a bacteria that causes infections primarily among seriously ill patients in the intensive care unit who may have reduced immune systems, has ra ...
'Stay Dry' tested to help men with incontinence problems from prostate cancer treatments
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Following surgery and radiation treatments for prostate cancer, most men suffer some degree of incontinence. For approximately 14 percent of these men, the problem lingers five years later.
Researchers track Chernobyl fallout
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2008 |
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When a reactor in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in 1986 in what was then the Soviet republic of Ukraine, radioactive elements were released in the air and dispersed over the Soviet Union, Europe and even eastern ...
Research finds drug candidate slows age-related macular degeneration
Oct 09, 2008 |
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Research results from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine show that the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is markedly slowed in new laboratory-engineered mice when they received treatments ...
Study suggests that inflammation may be the link between extreme sleep durations and poor health
Feb 02, 2009 |
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A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that sleep duration is associated with changes in the levels of specific cytokines that are important in regulating inflammation. The results suggest that inflammation may be ...
