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Voluntary expanded newborn screening should be offered shortly after birth, suggests UNC CTSA Partner

24 April 2015

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – Voluntary newborn screening for disorders that are not part of regular state screening programs should be offered to families shortly after birth, suggests an editorial by Donald Bailey, Ph.D.,...

N.C. A&T Joins White House Engineering Initiative

08 April 2015

N.C. A&T is among more than 120 U.S. engineering schools joining an engineering education initiative launched by the White House and the National Academy of Engineering. The schools will establish special educational programs...

Clinical Research Forum selects genomic analysis as top 10 research achievement

22 April 2015

A cancer genomics study led by UNC Lineberger researchers and other scientists involved in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project, a National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute-backed effort to create...

N.C. A&T Biology Professor Honored by White House

08 April 2015

Dr. Gregory Goins, associate professor of biology at North Carolina A&T State University, has been named a White House Champion of Change. Dr. Gregory Goins He is one of 11 faculty and staff members from historically...

N.C. A&T attacks serious health threat with hypoallergenic peanut

17 April 2015

With 2.8 million Americans – many of them children – affected by peanut allergies, researchers at N.C. A&T State University have attacked a serious health threat and moved to tap a huge market by developing a hypoallergenic...

Tox21 Collaboration Generates an Innovative Platform for Testing Individual Differences in Chemical Sensitivity

31 March 2015

What if we could predict whether an individual will have an adverse reaction to everyday chemicals, such as those in laundry detergent or perfume? Or whether a particular chemical factory worker will fall ill upon exposure...

UNC and Duke Combine Forces to Repair Genetic Defects in Muscular Dystrophy

15 April 2015

Charles Gersbach, PhD & Aravind Asokan, PhD Anyone who has been sickened by the flu or a bout of food poisoning knows that viruses and bacteria can be powerful adversaries. But in recent decades, they have also become...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

UNC-Duke Collaboration Probes the Depths of Gut Health

30 March 2015

The key to physical and mental wellbeing could lie in your gut. The cells that line your digestive tract – all thirty feet of it – do more than just help your body digest food and get rid of waste. They stimulate your immunity,...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

N.C. A&T Undergraduate Research Program Earns Recognition

08 April 2015

N.C. A&T's success in undergraduate research is drawing attention, particularly in Washington. Two of the nation’s preeminent national scientific institutions – the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research...

A Single-Cell Breakthrough

26 March 2015

A jelly fish-green fluorescent gene marks stem cells and other proliferating primitive cells of an intestine-like structure. The central lumen hollow space is stained red. (Magness Lab) The human gut is a remarkable thing....