Originally published by UNC News Services on July 29, 2013 Human bodies recognize at the molecular level that not all happiness is created equal, responding in ways that can help or hinder physical health, according to new...

Originally published by Endeavors on May 23, 2013 Scientists thought the gene SFRP2 suppressed tumor growth. Nancy Klauber-DeMore at UNC proved them wrong and created a potential breast cancer drug in the process. Something...

For many, the solutions to our most complex disease problems — cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, to name a few — remain painfully elusive. Why, in the era of the Human Genome Project, modern molecular biology and genetics and...

Originally published by UNC Healthcare on May 8, 2013 The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved a research award to the University of North Carolina School of Medicine to study the role of glucose...

Originally published by UNC News Services on July 25, 2013 Faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill secured $777.8 million in research funding during fiscal 2013. That total is up nearly $11 million – 1.4...

Since NC TraCS launched its pilot grant program in 2008, the institute has handed out over $8 million to fund innovative or high-risk translational research ventures at UNC. Even though often those awards go to School of Medicine...

Approximately 20,000 genes make up the instruction manual for our bodies. To figure out what each of these genes does, scientists have generally used two tactics: either “knocking down” the gene or the opposite, overexpressing...

Two antiviral drugs used to treat hepatitis C appear to work as well in the real world as they did during clinical trials, an international research consortium has observed. The consortium also released data that may help inform...

Originally published by newsobserver.com on June 23, 2013 Scientists thought the gene SFRP2 suppressed tumor growth. Nancy Klauber-DeMore at UNC proved them wrong and created a potential breast cancer drug in the process. Dr....

Originally published by UNC Healthcare on April 16, 2013 In research published April 8 in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, a research team led by William Kim, MD, member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center,...