health

Photo of Moses Bility in the lab looking at a test tube.

Just Add Liver

A tale of viruses, stem cells, and global health...
Photo of Flavio Frohlich looking at him computer as graduate student Michael Boyle attaches a head piece to graduate student Kristin Sellers.

Your Brain on Electricity

Something much subtler than ECT could be the new way to treat mental illness...
Photo of Spencer Smith working with the microscope that his lab created.

The Two-Photon Future

UNC neuroscientist Spencer Smith creates a new kind of microscope to study the brain like...
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The Root of the Problem

What is food insecurity? And why is it an issue in an agricultural state like...
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The Signal and the Noise

Henrik Dohlman discovered why seemingly identical cells might react differently to the drugs we use...
Scan of mice bones showing the level of fat in bone marrow. Far left: femur bones in sedentary mice fed a regular diet. This bone shows a medium amount of bone marrow fat. Second from left: exercising mice fed a regular diet. This shows very little amount of bone marrow fat. Third from left: sedentary mice fed a high-fat diet. This bone shows the highest amount of bone marrow fat. Far right: mice fed a high-fat diet but allowed to exercise. This bone shows a medium amount of bone marrow fat, although slightly higher than the far left bone.

Fat of the Bone

Maya Styner shows how a high-fat diet, exercise, and diabetes medications can change the insides...
A digitally enhanced image of the mucin matrix.

It’s the Mucins that Matter

UNC Marsico Lung Institute researchers overturn a controversial study and show how too many mucin...

Stop the pain before it starts

UNC researchers have discovered a new target for chronic pain treatment...
Photo of a Malawi woman and her baby.

Will Big Science Cure AIDS?

The story of UNC’s decades-long fight against HIV and its implications for the battle against...