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Researchers target staph infections

May 22, 2025
Inside the human body, many enemies hide. Brian Conlon hunts one of those lurking pathogens and is looking for better ways to kill them. Persister bacteria, they’re called. Some cause deadly infections. Even though an antibiotic wipes out the majority of bacteria causing an infection, a small percentage survives. Those persisters escape...

UNC Study Reveals Possible Effects of Air Quality Changes Associated with Global Warming on Human Airways

March 20, 2025
A study now published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, reveals how global warming could exacerbate lung diseases by dehydrating and inflaming human airways. UNC Marsico Lung Institute members Brian Button, PhD, is senior author and Alessandra Livraghi-Butrico, PhD, is co-author.

Carolina Biologist Wins Wolf Prize in Agriculture

March 13, 2025
Jeffery L. Dangl, a biologist at UNC-Chapel Hill, was part of an award-winning trio of researchers who received the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture “for groundbreaking discoveries of the immune system and disease resistance in plants.”

New Assay Promises Accurate Diagnosis and Surveillance of Dengue and Zika Viruses

March 6, 2025
Aravinda de Silva, PhD, MPH, a member of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, has designed a new blood test to accurately diagnose dengue and Zika Viruses, to improve surveillance and advance vaccine development.

Some Viruses ‘Freeze’ Their RNA to Replicate, UNC Study Says

February 13, 2025
Researchers have discovered that RNA in Zika virus can freeze itself in time to further its spread in the body, revolutionizing how researchers study disease-causing viruses.

Three Drug Cocktail Shows Potential to Boost CAR-T Cancer Therapy

January 30, 2025
Preclinical research findings from UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center identified a cocktail of three different drugs that can be used to generate more robust immune system CAR-Ts (chimeric antigen receptor-T cells) to fight cancer. This finding may have a significant impact on improving the production of CAR-T cells for clinical...

Matthew Greenwald, Drake Philip, and Caitlyn Molloy win 2023 Awards for Excellence and Innovation

August 13, 2024
This year’s recipients of The G. Phillip Manire Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award were Matthew Greenwald  and Drake Philip, and The D. Gordon Sharp Graduate Innovator Award was awarded to Caitlin Molloy. The G. Phillip Manire Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award of $1,000 is given annually to an outstanding MCRO graduate...

New Research Shows That Bacteria Get “Hangry,” Too

April 7, 2023
Adam Rosenthal, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, shows that genetically identical cells within a bacterial community have different functions, with some members behaving more docile and others producing the very toxins that make us feel ill.

Kelly Olsen defends her PhD!

April 7, 2023
Kelly Olsen defended her doctoral dissertation, Shared Minor Histocompatibility Antigen Discovery and Targeting in the Context of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant for Hematologic Malignancies. The presentation took place on Friday, February 24, 2023. Her research, which was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Benjamin Vincent, focused on the discovery of...

Scientists Create Long-acting Injectable Drug Delivery System for Tuberculosis

August 29, 2022
In 2020, more than 1.5 million people around the world died of tuberculosis (TB), marking the first time in more than a decade that annual TB deaths had increased and demonstrating the global need for better access to treatments.