{"id":3282,"date":"2025-12-02T14:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:46:52","slug":"research-highlighted-by-unc-health-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/2025\/12\/research-highlighted-by-unc-health-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Highlighted by UNC Health News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-title\">Our recent research published in <em>PNAS<\/em> has been highlighted by UNC Health News: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2025\/11\/unc-scientists-discover-how-a-critical-signaling-step-works-inside-cells\/?utm_source=miragenews&amp;utm_medium=miragenews&amp;utm_campaign=news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>UNC Scientists Discover How a Critical Signaling Step Works Inside Cells<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;UNC researchers discovered how a key step in cell signaling works by showing exactly how G proteins detach from receptors that many common medicines target.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have made a breakthrough in understanding how cells respond to some of the most widely used medicines at the molecular level. Their study, published in the journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2512423122\"><em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)<\/em><\/a>, demonstrates a very powerful computational method on how important proteins transmit cellular signals inside our bodies. Researchers hope these new findings could help create safer and more effective treatments for a wide range of conditions ranging from heart disease to mental health disorders.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our recent research published in PNAS has been highlighted by UNC Health News: &#8220;UNC Scientists Discover How a Critical Signaling Step Works Inside Cells&#8220;: &#8220;UNC researchers discovered how a key step in cell signaling works by showing exactly how G proteins detach from receptors that many common medicines target. Scientists at the University of North &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/2025\/12\/research-highlighted-by-unc-health-news\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Research Highlighted by UNC Health News\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":false,"featured_image_medium":false,"featured_image_medium_large":false,"featured_image_large":false,"featured_image_thumbnail":false,"featured_image_alt":false,"category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3285,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}