New Research Shows HIV Can Lie Dormant in the Brain
Yuyang Tang, PhD, and Guochun Jiang, PhD, in the UNC School of Medicine extracted living brain tissue to conclude that specialized immune cells in the brain can harbor latent but…
Study Shows Metformin Lowers Long COVID Risk
John Buse, MD, PhD, co-authored a study showing that the common diabetes drug metformin substantially decreased the risk of developing long COVID after infection from SARS-CoV-2. The clinical trial was…
Researchers Target Proteins, Pathways Behind Congenital Heart Disease
UNC School of Medicine scientists Whitney Edwards, PhD, Frank Conlon, PhD, and colleagues identified molecular pathways critical for heart development.
Adolescents are Aware of and Invested in the Potential Impacts of Abortion Restrictions, Study Says
Bianca A. Allison, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, led a qualitative study showing that adolescents know and care about the changing legal landscape…
Breaking Through Bacterial Barriers in Chronic Treatment-Resistant Wounds
Researchers in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the UNC-NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering have developed a new strategy to improve drug-delivery into…
HPV Self-Collection Kits Increase Screening Among Under-screened, Under-served Women in North Carolina
Jennifer S. Smith, PhD, at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC School of Medicine, and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, led the phase 3 controlled trial, which…
12 Months of Treatment with EPIT Superior to Placebo in Desensitizing Children to Peanuts
The study, called EPITOPE, led by senior author A. Wesley Burks, MD, CEO of UNC Health and dean of the UNC School of Medicine, and contributing author Edwin Kim, MD,…
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Maximizing Extracellular Vesicles: Diehl Authors Protocol on Isolation and Quantification to Optimize Patient Care
It’s a big step forward in using extracellular vesicles (EVs) as a diagnostic tool. Lead study author, J. Nathaniel Diehl, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, led research showing…
Mammalian Evolution Provides Hints for Understanding the Origins of Human Disease
UNC School of Medicine’s Patrick Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, and a team of scientists in the Psychiatric Genetic Consortium have created a new manual researchers can use to learn more about…
Genetics And Aging, News, Psychiatry And Mental Health, Research
A New Primary Care Model Proves Effective for Patients with Severe Mental Illness
UNC School of Medicine’s Alex K. Gertner, MD, PhD, and Beat D. Steiner, MD, MPH, led a study on a new “enhanced primary care” model which resulted in lower blood…
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Researchers Leverage Cell Self-Destruction to Treat Brain Tumors
Dominique Higgins, MD, PhD, led research into how a specialized diet can induce a new type of programmed cell death to help kill brain tumor cells.
Scientists Enhance New Neurons to Restore Memory, Elevate Mood in Alzheimer’s Disease Research Model
The lab of Juan Song, PhD, and colleagues at the UNC School of Medicine, demonstrated the therapeutic potential of new neurons generated in adulthood for modulating the pathology and functional…
Researchers Announce Findings from Landmark Clinical Trial for Pediatric Crohn’s Disease
Michael Kappelman, MD, MPH, was the lead PI on the clinical trial, which followed nearly 300 children with Crohn’s to evaluate how their conditions changed in response to anti-TNF biologic…
Gastrointestinal, Infectious Diseases, News, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Research
New Research Shows That Bacteria Get “Hangry,” Too
Adam Rosenthal, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, shows that genetically identical cells within a bacterial community have different functions, with some members behaving more docile…
Reducing the Appeal of Smoking: Study Confirms Tobacco Warnings on Packages Need Improvement
Leah Ranney, PhD, MA, associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, and Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, professor and director of Departmental Advancement at…
Smith Earns NSF Grant to Study “Dark Matter” of the Genome
Keriayn Smith, PhD, receives $665,786 over the course of four years to research non-coding RNA in yeast, mammalian cells, and more.
Scherrer, Linnstaedt Earn NIH HEAL Initiative Honors
Gregory Scherrer, PharmD, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology and member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, received a Director’s Award for Excellence in Research, and Sarah Linnstaedt, PhD,…
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Researchers Examine Career Confidence in Underrepresented Biomedical Scientist Trainees
A new study, led by Rebekah Layton, PhD, and a team of collaborations from the NIH Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training consortium, shows that underrepresented graduate and postdoctoral students are…
Novel Peanut Allergy Treatment Shown to be Safe, Effective, and Lasting
A four-year clinical trial led by Edwin Kim, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine, has found that an increased dosage of a unique type of peanut allergy immunotherapy continues…
How a New Blood-Vessel-on-a-Chip Can Help Researchers Further Understand Vascular Malformations
A research team led by William Polacheck, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, has engineered a microfluidic model that mimics a rare genetic disorder affecting the structure of veins,…
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