With new funding, a UNC startup is poised to halt the most devastating effects of chemotherapy.

Imagine taking five or ten medications a day—before you even graduate high school. An undergrad researcher helps young adults transition to managing their own care.

Gut bacteria reveal that exclusively breastfed babies are better equipped for the transition to solids.

When it comes to fighting disease, bacteria do it better.

Undergraduate researchers study whether harvesting oysters helps or hurts coastal ecosystems.

Marine science researchers at UNC have found that estuaries generate natural defenses against the effects of global warming—until a hurricane hits.

Anna Atencio wasn’t planning to come to Carolina—until she learned about the Chancellor’s Science Scholars Program.

Brian Strahl and his band of biochemists unravel the complicated mysteries of the epigenetic code to find a culprit in cancer development.

Sixteen years after scientists found the genes that control the circadian clock in all cells, the lab of UNC’s Aziz Sancar discovers the mechanisms responsible for keeping our internal clocks in sync.

A tale of viruses, stem cells, and global health

Something much subtler than ECT could be the new way to treat mental illness.

UNC neuroscientist Spencer Smith creates a new kind of microscope to study the brain like never before.