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JAMES BEATY | Staff photoHunter Fry plays Taps on his trumpet on Memorial Day at the Veterans Memorial in Hartshorne s Elmwood Park as part of the Taps Across America project to honor the nation s fallen military service members.
JAMES BEATY | Staff photoDoug Jennings, left, provides some musical accompaniment, while American Legion Post 180 Chaplin Dan Denny, right, sings a patriotic song during Memorial Day ceremonies at Hartshorne s Elmwood Cemetery.
JAMES BEATY | Staff photoHartshorne sophomore Hunter Fry plays Taps on his trumpet at the Veterans Memorial at Hartshorne s Elmwood Cemetery as part of the Taps Across America project.
JAMES BEATY | Staff photoSheryl Moore, left, and Maddie Walker stand at the podium while Walker reads the poem America s Answer to In Flanders Field, which Moore had read a few minutes earlier during Memorial Day services at Elmwood Cemetery in Hartshorne.Â
Rare historic footage discovered in home movies
February 17, 2021
UGA Libraries preserves film of Augusta’s African American community
Even in black and white with no audio, a home movie of families gathering and men playing trombones and marching to the beat of bass drums through the streets of Augusta, Georgia, presents a vivid picture of a community often underrepresented in archival and historical materials.
Discovered in a decades-old film can, the home movie, which features a convention parade of an African American fraternal order known as the Black Elks, as well as a glimpse of life in the Laney Walker area of the city during the Jim Crow era, has been restored, digitized and preserved in the Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, the only archives in Georgia devoted to preserving the state’s moving image heritage. The footage is freely available online through the Brown Media Archives website.
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Cancer immunotherapy using designer immune cells has revolutionized cancer treatment in recent years. In this type of therapy, T cells, a type of white blood cell, are collected from a patient s blood and subjected to genetic engineering to produce T cells carrying a synthetic molecule termed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) that is designed to enable T cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells.
Then these genetically modified CAR T cells are expanded to large quantities and infused back to the patient.
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