Author: Ken Duenke

A study of patients who have difficulty paying attention to the left side of their environment has provided some of the first direct evidence that brain injury can cause detrimental functional changes in brain regions far from the site of the actual injury.

The report is by Peter MacKeith, associate director of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and associate dean of Architecture.

Researchers modified the structure of a protein called Stat1, which relays signals from interferon at the cell surface to genes in the cell nucleus.

Tim ParkerStaff members who were named Star Performers for their outstanding commitment to excellent patient care received tickets to a Cards game.

School of Medicine researchers have uncovered how macrophages themselves keep from succumbing to infections.

Photo by Kevin Lowder”Sounds of the South,” a hurricane-relief benefit concert, was hosted by the School of Social Work’s student body Sept. 30.

In other action, the trustees received a detailed report from Chancellor Wrighton on the status of numerous University matters and initiatives.

Broken bones can cause some of the most painful traumatic injuries. Last spring, I experienced that reality firsthand when I fell nearly 12 feet off a ladder and severely fractured my wrist while painting my brother’s home in San Francisco. By the time I landed in Chicago to make my transfer home, my arm was […]

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Enlisted to help fight viral infections, immune cells called macrophages consume virus-infected cells to stop the spread of the disease in the body. Now researchers at the School of Medicine have uncovered how macrophages keep from succumbing to the infection themselves.