News and Updates

NEW Mass Photometer in UNC PEP-MX Core

The UNC PEP-MX core has a Refeyn One Mass Photometry instrument that’s now available for use.

Itano Featured in Podcast on Gender Equity in STEM

Michelle Itano, PhD, director of the UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core and assistant professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, is featured in this edition of the Talking Techniques podcast about gender equality in STEM.

Gaby De la Cruz Named New Facility Director of Animal Histopathology Core

We are excited to introduce you to Gaby De la Cruz, the new AHC Facility Director as of January 11th.

Multiple Cores Contribute to SARS-CoV-2 Paper Published in Nature

The Nature Accelerated Article Preview “SARS-CoV-2 infection is effectively treated and prevented by EIDD-2801” was published online 09 FEB 2021.

The UNC Microbiome Core has served the research community providing extensive experience and technologies for microbiome analysis for over 10 years.

The UNC Microbiome Core has served the research community providing extensive experience and technologies for microbiome analysis for over 10 years.

Innovate Carolina Offers Patent Landscaping and Market Research

The service offers custom analytical reports that provide a strategic view of the competitive landscape, current and projected market conditions, as well as opportunities for grants and funding to complete research and launch new products, services and businesses.

Dr. Michelle Itano’s Neuroscience Microscopy Core featured in CZI blogpost

The past few months have shown how difficult—and how important—it is to be able to understand how a disease really works.

The Animal Metabolism Phenotyping Core offers technical support and expertise for measuring traits related to metabolism in mouse models of nutrition and disease.

The Animal Metabolism Phenotyping Core offers technical support and expertise for measuring traits related to metabolism in mouse models of nutrition and disease. The core provides access to state-of-the-art methods and equipment to support high quality phenotyping of energy balance in mice.

UNC CF Tissue Procurement and Cell Culture Core Supports Key SARS-CoV-2 Study

The UNC CF Tissue Procurement and Cell Culture Core, directed by Dr. Scott Randell and managed by Leslie Fulcher contributed to a pivotal study published in Cell by the laboratories of Drs. Richard Boucher and Ralph Baric.

New Bioinformatics and Analytics Research Collaborative (BARC)

The Bioinformatics and Analytics Research Collaborative (BARC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a multi-disciplinary center that aims to provide bioinformatics expertise and analysis to researchers across the university and beyond for high throughput data.

Cryo-EM Core Facility Determines High-Resolution Structure of Key DNA-sensing Protein

Led by Qi Zhang, PhD, and Robert McGinty, MD, PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill scientists used cryo-electron microscopy technology to produce the first-ever high-resolution structure of the protein cGAS bound to the DNA packaging unit inside human cell nuclei, revealing how cGAS responds to foreign or damaged DNA, but not the body’s healthy DNA.

Scientists Show How Brain Flexibility Emerges in Infants

Cognitive flexibility, which refers to the brain’s ability to switch between mental processes in response to external stimuli and different task demands, seems to begin developing during the first two years of life, which is much earlier than previously thought. UNC BRIC researchers led by Weili Lin, PhD, used magnetic resonance imaging techniques to show … Continued