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Welcome to This Week @Minnesota.
Minnesota photographer Jim Brandenburg spent 90 days
in the wilderness of the Boundary Waters
to create his most recent exhibit.
Named Chased By the Light: Jim Brandenburgs 90 Day Journey,
the exhibit is currently on display
at the Bell Museum of Natural History.
90 photos make up the exhibit, one taken for each day
of his journey, showing Brandenburgs ability
to capture the essence of nature.
In the coming months, our researchers will open a new,
phase-one clinical trial designed to test the viability
of blood-forming stem cells expanded using a newly developed
culture system.
The hope is that a greater availability of the cells,
gathered from umbilical chord blood after the birth
of a child, will help improve treatment for Leukemia,
Lymphoma, and Milo Dysplastic Syndrome.
It is a new strategy for expanding the numbers
of stem cells beyond anything weve ever seen before.
This has potential for really revolutionizing bone marrow
transplants or chord blood transplants that we do today,
because it could speed recovery tremendously.
The student video scholarship contest kicked off the voting
period this week.
We asked the question, what are you driven to discover?
and students got behind the camera to share their answers.
Some were inspirational, some were simple,
and some were humorous.
You can vote on the videos
on the Universitys Facebook page through January 17th.
Thats This Week @Minnesota.
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