News Releases
July 24, 2014
Cuyahoga County high school students are smoking tobacco products at the same rate as adults in the county, according to new data from the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) at ϳԹ. In 2013, more than 22 percent, or one in five high school studen...
July 17, 2014
The mysterious condition once known as “water on the brain” became just a bit less murky this week thanks to a global research group led in part by a ϳԹ researcher. Professor Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, MD, PhD, is the co-principal investigator on a study that illustrates how the domino...
July 09, 2014
In an era of increasing concern about the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant illness, ϳԹ researchers have identified a promising new pathway to disabling disease: blocking bacteria’s access to iron in the body.
The scientists showed how bacterial siderophore, a small molecule, cap...
July 07, 2014
Researchers from ϳԹ School of Medicine are part of a five-university collaboration receiving a $12.6 million, four-year grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to identify rare genetic variants that may either pr...
June 30, 2014
Leaders from ϳԹ and University Hospitals this evening announced a new collaborative fundraising effort focused on Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) cancer. The news came as Char and Chuck Fowler announced their third major philanthropic commitment aimed at defeating the d...
June 24, 2014
Researchers from ϳԹ and Dartmouth universities have shown that a class of small antioxidant molecules carries enormous promise for suppressing colon cancer associated with colitis. These findings, published in an early June edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, offer ho...
June 23, 2014
ϳԹ School of Medicine scientists have made an extraordinary double discovery. First, they have identified thousands of novel long non-coding ribonucleic acid (lncRNA) transcripts. Second, they have learned that some of them defy conventional wisdom regarding lncRNA transcripts, bec...
June 22, 2014
ϳԹ scientists have discovered how a family of proteins — cation diffusion facilitators (CDFs) — regulates an important cellular cycle where a cell’s energy generated is converted to necessary cellular functions. The finding has the potential to inform future research aim...
June 13, 2014
ϳԹ researchers have discovered that an existing drug used to help cancer patients has the potential to protect thousands of others from the often-deadly impact of vascular clots.
In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration approved bortezomib (Velcade) to treat multiple m...
June 05, 2014
ϳԹ researchers have discovered landmarks within pluripotent stem cells that guide how they develop to serve different purposes within the body. This breakthrough offers promise that scientists eventually will be able to direct stem cells in ways that prevent disease or repair damag...