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Fall 2019
Issues/Contents
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Feature

Super fly

This inconspicuous insect helps U scientists unravel the complexities of human health.
Feature

New normal

Backed by U resources and a generation of research, childhood cancer survivors are thriving decades after treatment.
Feature

Unique technique

Stem cell scientists take to the lab to make cochlear implants an option for more people who have disabling hearing loss.
Q&A

The HPV-cancer connection

Here’s what Deanna Teoh, M.D., learned about why more people aren’t getting vaccinated against human papillomavirus.

Departments

Forefront

Forefront

Grab your oar

Golden Gopher head football coach P.J. Fleck wants you to join him and his wife in supporting families at University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital.
Forefront

Transplants without antirejection drugs?

A U-led research team shows that transplant success is possible without the need for long-term immunosuppressants.
Forefront

Recovering fully after bypass surgery

“Good enough” isn’t good enough for heart surgeon Rosemary Kelly, M.D., when it comes to helping people who have chronic ischemia.
Forefront

Banking on research

Christopher Weight, M.D., is climbing every one of TCF Bank Stadium’s 6,054 steps in the name of kidney cancer research.
Forefront

Brain at work

A unique device offers neuroscientists at the U quite the view: one of the brain surface as it functions in real time.
Forefront

Making headlines

The beautiful sound of her son’s beating heart, an app to reduce snoring, and a medical mystery solved.

Gallery

Gallery

More than skin deep

See what happens when a renowned fashion photographer turns his attention to celebrating the beauty of human diversity.

Synopsis

Synopsis

Freezing time for organ transplantation

What if it were possible to stop time, biologically speaking, to keep living donor organs undamaged for longer?

Gratefully Yours

Gratefully Yours

Always there

“I could not have asked for a better team to take care of me, not just during the surgery but before and after.”

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