By JELENA KECMANOVIC | Special To The Washington Post | Published: April 21, 2021 President Joe Biden s decision to pull U.S. forces out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11 might have been just another news story for many Americans. But for veterans, active-duty service members and their families, it was much more. I started crying uncontrollably when I heard the news, said Jake Wood, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Afghanistan and is the author of Once a Warrior. When his wife asked why he was crying, he could say only, I don t know. For people connected with the military, this situation is likely to trigger many mixed, conflicting emotions, said Michelle Sherman, a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School. And we can anticipate that distress and symptoms of PTSD, depression and other problems will increase for a while.
Researchers decipher the molecular underpinning of exceptional responses in glioblastoma patients
Despite access to some of the best possible medical care in the world, Senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy both died within 18 months of their diagnosis of glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. While this deadly outcome typifies the nature of this disease, some glioblastoma patients see exceptional benefits from chemotherapy and survive beyond expectations. Why this happens has been revealed by researchers at the University of Minnesota in a new study published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Deciphering the molecular underpinning of these exceptional responses may hold the key to transforming the hope for miracles into the reality of an expected cure for glioblastoma patients, said Clark C. Chen, MD, PhD, Lyle French Chair in Neurosurgery and head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School, who is also le
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MINNEAPOLIS/ST.PAUL (04/20/2021) University of Minnesota Medical School researchers have offered new ways to think about the immune system thanks to a recent study published in
Nature. Their research, which indicates organ tissues become increasingly immune throughout life, may begin to alter fundamental ideas regarding the rules of vaccination and the immune system s function within the body.
Saythi Wijeyesinghe, PhD, the lead author on the study is a researcher in the Masopust Lab at the U of M Medical School, which focuses on T cell immunity. His research began with the goal to understand the lifespan of T cells in organ tissues, which are known to fight off viruses while also protecting from reinfection by the same virus.