July 6, 2022
Christine Peat, PhD, director of the National Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders at UNC-Chapel Hill, led the creation of this easy-to-use, digital screening tool. It is free and available to all primary care clinicians.
July 4, 2022
With no current treatments for hepatitis A, UNC School of Medicine scientists led by Stanley M. Lemon, MD, discovered how a protein and enzymes interact to allow hepatitis A virus to replicate, and they used a known drug to stop viral replication in an animal model.
June 30, 2022
With the FDA ordering Juul to stop selling their e-cigarette devices, UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Ilona Jaspers, PhD, published the first study to compare the respiratory immune health effects of different types of devices.
June 13, 2022
A new study shows how broadly the COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions for working parents who experienced difficulties finding childcare, especially parents of children who have special healthcare needs. Third-year UNC School of Medicine student Caleb Easterly led the analysis of data collected before and during the pandemic.
May 26, 2022
Twelve years after a five-year-old boy died from acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), researchers continued to investigate the pathology and immune response of this polio-like illness. A new case report in the New England Journal of Medicine provides evidence that Enterovirus D68 RNA and protein were found in the spinal cord of preserved autopsy tissue– proof that EV-D68 causes AFM. Dr. Matthew Vogt, MD, PhD, is the corresponding author of the paper.
May 26, 2022
This research, led by Jessica Girault, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, was conducted as part of the NIH-funded Infant Brain Imaging Study Network, which used MRI to document crucial differences in the visual processing system in the brains of infants who went on to be diagnosed with autism.
May 16, 2022
Led by Juan Song, PhD, scientists at the UNC School of Medicine used optogenetic techniques to stimulate specific brain cells to increase production of neural stem cells and neurons relevant to memory and emotion processing in animal models.
May 11, 2022
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists led by Mark Zylka, PhD, found measurable levels of a biomarker for azoxystrobin in pregnant women and young kids, and investigated the fungicide’s ability to pass from mothers to embryos in utero in mice and during lactation.
May 10, 2022
James F. Howard, MD, Distinguished Professor of Neuromuscular Disease, Professor of Neurology, Medicine and Allied Health in the UNC School of Medicine, was lead investigator in the Phase 3 clinical trial of zilucoplan.
May 10, 2022
Restoring lost gene activity prevents many disease signs in an animal model of the rare, single-gene neurodevelopmental condition. The UNC Neuroscience Center lab of Ben Philpot, PhD, led this research.
May 3, 2022
In the ultimate use of telemedicine, UNC School of Medicine’s Stephan Moll, MD, worked with NASA to treat a U.S. astronaut’s blood clot during a mission on the International Space Station. That led to a study on how blood flows in zero gravity, and if astronauts are at greater risk of developing blood clots in space.
May 3, 2022
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