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CLEVELAND — The National Cancer Institute has awarded $11.3 million to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine to establish a center of excellence for research on gastrointestinal cancers. The funding designates the university as a Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Gas...

CLEVELAND – For the first time, scientists can see pathways to stop a deadly brain cancer in its tracks. Researchers at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine have imaged individual cancer cells and the routes they travel as the tumor spreads. The researchers used a novel cryo-imaging t...

Note: Detail on the groundbreaking research that led to this clinical trial is available here. CLEVELAND—A team of researchers at three landmark Cleveland institutions have come together to launch a new clinical trial of an experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS). Researchers at the Clev...

CLEVELAND - Research published in the August issue of the American EconomicReview finds that small businesses have been overpaying for health insurance. The collaborative research paper "Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance" highlights difficulti...

CLEVELAND – Groundbreaking research encompassing ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, has uncovered a natural defense mechanism that is capable of inactivating the toxin that spreads Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, an increasingly common...

CLEVELAND—The National Center for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM) at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is proud to present "MSC 2011: Innovations in Cell-Based Regenerative Therapies," a three-day forum to highlight transformative breakthroughs in the area of adult stem cell medicine with a focus on how ...

A national team of experts led by a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researcher has received a multimillion-dollar grant to bring unrivaled qualities found in one- and two-dimensional nanomaterials into three dimensions. The scientists, led by engineering professor Liming Dai, hope to produce new ma...

Researchers at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø have developed a computer modeling method to accurately predict how a peripheral nerve axon responds to electrical stimuli, slashing the complex work from an inhibitory weeks-long process to just a few seconds. The method, which enables efficient ev...

CLEVELAND - Researchers at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine bridged a spinal cord injury and biologically regenerated lost nerve connections to the diaphragm, restoring breathing in an adult rodent model of spinal cord injury. The work, which restored 80 to more than 100 percent of...

By Kyle Smith for the SAGES Seminar, Reading and Writing Science If a person climbed a towering redwood and took a sample from the top and bottom of the tree, a comparison would show that the DNA from each sample within the tree is different. This is the basis of biology chair Christopher A. Cullis...