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(Case Western Reserve University) Case Western Reserve University researchers have identified a gene activator crucial to development of flatworms that cause schistosomiasis - a potential target for a vaccine for the killer disease.

(University Hospitals Case Medical Center) Researchers from Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented new research findings in 25 presentations this weekend at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology at the San Diego Convention Center.

(University Hospitals Case Medical Center) University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Lentigen Corporation announced today the initiation of a novel Phase I clinical trial of LG631 gene therapy for the protection of hematopoietic stem cells from the dose limiting toxicity of chemotherapy with Temodar.

(Case Western Reserve University) Today the Society for Integrative Oncology highlighted top research findings presented at the Eighth International Conference this week in Cleveland, Ohio.

More than 80 abstracts will be presented at the annual meeting, which will be keynoted by National Institutes of Health Director, Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D.

(Case Western Reserve University) Distance presents a challenge as family members work to gain information about their loved ones and participate in their cancer care.

But it's also challenging to the local caregivers -- nurses, doctors and local family members -- who must adapt short-term to these remote caregivers' special needs.

In hospitals across the country, such challenges have prompted distance caregivers to be labeled "seagulls" and "pigeons" -- references to family members who fly in, make a mess and fly out.

(Case Western Reserve University) Mesenchymal stem cells were thought to be the key to growing new organs, but research has shown them to be potent protectors and healers in the body.

Case Western Reserve University scientists and others find the cells appear effective against a growing list of diseases and conditions.

(Case Western Reserve University) The past two decades, there has been an explosion of research into the use of viruses as platforms for nanotechnology in health, electronics and more.

A new book by scientists at Case Western Reserve University and UC San Diego, provides an overview aimed at college students and researchers.

(Case Western Reserve University) Just like intelligence agents watching for the real terrorists threatening to attack, monitoring health-care worker adherence to mandatory hand-washing protocols via hand-washing squads in hospitals can go a long way to stop outbreaks of the opportunistic C. diff bacteria, says Irena Kenneley, an infection prevention and control expert and assistant professor of nursing from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University.

(Case Western Reserve University) A persistent and abundant bacterium in the mouth is not only a threat to teeth and gums, but can disrupt pregnancies and has been found in lung, liver, spleen, blood, abdominal, and obstetrical and gynecological abscesses and infections.

Yiping W. Han, a professor of periodontics at Case Western Reserve University, describes the findings in a chapter of an upcoming book.

(Case Western Reserve University) Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $1.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study how tumor cells avoid detection by the body's immune system, allowing cancer to develop and spread.

The five-year National Institutes of Health grant will enable researchers led by Alex Y. Huang, MD, Ph.D., to examine "immune tolerance."