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‘Flying carpet’ technique delivers one-two punch of anticancer drugs

15 January 2015

An international team of researchers has developed a drug delivery technique that utilizes graphene strips as “flying carpets” to deliver two anticancer drugs sequentially to cancer cells, with each drug targeting the distinct...

Radio In Vivo to interview Don Rose of Carolina KickStart

22 December 2014

Radio In Vivo, a weekly science interview radio program that airs Wednesdays at 11AM on community radio station WCOM-FM 103.5 in Carrboro, NC, will interview Don Rose, Executive Director of Carolina KickStart. Don Rose, PhD Topics...

UNC teams compete in Neuro Startup Challenge

14 January 2015

Four teams of PhD students at the University of North Carolina have been selected to compete in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Neuro Startup Challenge. In the global challenge, teams of students and entrepreneurs...

Forum Focuses on Hypertension

18 December 2014

Health professionals and community leaders got together on Friday in Greenville to seek new strategies in the battle against what one expert called “a medical and societal emergency.” The Evidence Academy on Hypertension was...

UNC and Duke CTSAs Award First Pilot Grants for Collaborative Translational Research Projects

07 January 2015

Christoph Hornik, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Duke School of Medicine (left), Daniel Gonzalez, PharmD, PhD, Assistant Professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy (right) The North Carolina Translational and Clinical...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

Fighting Hypertension in Eastern North Carolina

18 December 2014

When it comes to health, geography can be destiny. The zip code where a person lives, works and plays is a strong predictor of life expectancy, better even than considerations like genetics or weight. In North Carolina, people...

Can Exercise Lower Baby's Blood Pressure?

07 January 2015

Regular exercise during pregnancy reduces the chances that low-birth weight babies will have high blood pressure later in life, new research shows. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a key factor in cardiovascular health....

Barbara Entwisle Discusses UNC's Research Enterprise

17 December 2014

Carolina faculty brought in $792.7 million in research contracts and grants in fiscal 2014, up $14.9 million from a total of $777.8 million in fiscal 2013. As Chancellor Carol L. Folt told the Board of Trustees last month,...

Why Some HIV Vaccines Backfire

07 January 2015

Because vaccines can increase the number of immune cells that serve as viral targets, some designed to protect against HIV can actually lead to increased rates of infection. The findings suggest that when evaluating potential...

Grants to Boost Drug Research

16 December 2014

Indianapolis, Ind. -- The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute recently awarded more than $100,000 to researchers seeking to identify new therapeutic agents for potential development as future drugs. The...