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September 15, 2020
ϳԹ computer and data sciences researcher improving privacy for global genomic data sharing network, supported by $1.2 million NIH grant
A ϳԹ computer and data sciences researcher is working to shore up privacy protections for people whose genomic infor...

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May 13, 2020
Medicine’s Paul Tesar receives J. Bruce Jackson, MD, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring
There are treatments, but no cures, for millions of people worldwide suffering from diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and leukodystrophies (rare genetic diseases that affect the brain and spinal cord). This is why Paul Tesar and his lab continue to conduct promising translational r...

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March 12, 2020
A research article co-authored by Anna Mitchell, associate professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, and Michiko Watanabe, professor of pediatrics, has been published in Birth Defects Research.
Mitchell’s and Watanabe’s article is part of a special issue of Birth Defects Researc...

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March 03, 2020
ϳԹ researchers use lipids to safely deliver gene therapy to the eye, successfully holding off advance of rare, inherited eye disorder
Researchers at ϳԹ have used a
unique method to safely deliver gene therapy to fight a rare, but irreversibl...
January 29, 2020
Now enrolling for a research study:
Healthy contact lens wearers (who have been using contacts for at least five years) in the age range of 15-70 and are of European ancestry (Causasian) and have no history of a corneal ulcer from contact lenses.
The research study involves:
Brief eye examAnswer ...

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November 20, 2018
Technique improves understanding of myelin disease; expands ability to screen potential therapies for rare pediatric brain disorder
In two recently published papers, a scientific team at ϳԹ School of Medicine reports on the discovery and implementation of a new, more eff...

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November 12, 2018
Targeting longnNoncoding RNAs may offer gains compared to conventional approaches
Certain genes that code for proteins have long been known to contribute to cancer progression. But in a frame shift, researchers from ϳԹ School of Medicine recently found that non-coding ge...

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October 11, 2018
Ahmad Khalil, assistant professor of genetics and biochemistry and member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, will serve as a session organizer for the American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium Oct. 19-21 in Nanjing, China.
The symposium is a joint effort of the Chinese Academy of Sciences...

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September 28, 2018
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris can’t recall a time when he didn’t know he would have a career in medicine. It was just something he feels like he was “almost born with”—fitting for researcher who would go on to study genetics.
With a career at the intersection of pediatrics and genetics, Wynshaw-Boris, the ...

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July 26, 2018
Researchers generate missing cell type in brain “organoids”
A cutting-edge laboratory technique that turns human stem cells into brain-like tissue now recapitulates human brain development more accurately than ever, according to a new study from ϳԹ School of Medicine. Th...