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Improving banked blood

Physics professor Daniel Kim-Shapiro is studying how nitric oxide in blood affects the quality of stored blood and how it can be altered to make blood transfusions safer. Professor of Physics Daniel Kim-Shapiro and a co-researcher have received a major federal grant to study why the quality of stored blood degrades over time and to investigate ways to make transfusions using older blood safer.

Categories: Research & Discovery


Medical school to coordinate NIH grant

The School of Medicine will receive nearly $50 million from the National Institutes of Health as the coordinating center for a national study measuring the effects of lowering blood-pressure levels on cardiovascular and kidney diseases.

Ghost stories with a twist

John McNally, the Ollen R. Nalley Associate Professor of English, is the author of two novels and 52 published short stories, and the editor or co-editor of six anthologies of short stories and essays. The ghosts in Associate Professor of English John McNally’s book, “Ghosts of Chicago,” aren’t haunted by spirits, but instead “by deaths, by failed marriages, by lies they’ve told, by crimes committed.”

Financial nightmare?

While many would outlaw "zombie stocks," Sherry Jarrell takes the opposite viewpoint: "If someone wants to go on that haunted trail, let them." Like those creatures in horror films that rise from the dead, zombie stocks — shares of bankrupt companies that failed during the financial crisis — are still on the march.

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