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The annual White Coat Ceremony signifies the beginning of a student’s journey to becoming a full-fledged physician.

Researchers from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center have for the first time eliminated replication-competent HIV-1 DNA from the genomes of living animals.

If there was a single, overriding message at the 117th commencement for the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, it was this: Don’t lose sight of the personal connections.

In a matter of seconds, everything changes for Katz School of Medicine fourth-years.

Like sending a letter through the mail or a text over a cellular network, the heart can generate messages that travel long distances through the body. Those messages ultimately reach fat cells, new research by scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine shows.

The only limits on these systems are hardware capabilities, which are improving, and the user’s own creativity.

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