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'To Seek a True Cure’: UNC Researchers Pioneer HIV Research with ‘Kick and Kill’

UNC researchers have been working with GlaxoSmithKline on parallel studies at the UNC Cure Center for 18 months to advance this new method of combating the global epidemic of HIV. Read more...
A Caregiving Community at Carolina

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation strives to create better work-life balance for physician scientists — and UNC-Chapel Hill is going above and beyond to make that happen. Read more...
Sequencing the Sea

Marine scientists at UNC are taking a new approach to figuring out why and how microalgae blooms occur in the Neuse River Estuary. Read more...
This Is Your World on Drugs

Hendrée Jones, director of UNC Horizons, works tirelessly every day to help mothers and children struggling with substance use disorders. In the past five years, her work has expanded beyond Chapel Hill to places like Afghanistan, Brazil, and India. Read more...
Smithies' Notebooks Go Digital

As of Nov. 7, the 150-plus notebooks of Oliver Smithies — Carolina's world-renowned geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate — can be viewed on the Oliver Smithies Research Archive website. For 65 years, he's been taking daily notes in his notebooks, which contain not only his groundbreaking research, but also details of his day-to-day life. Read more...
Scraping for Secrets on Online Drug Forums

Online forums provide an outlet for drug users — and a source of information for UNC researchers like John D. Martin, III, who believes that studying these platforms may be the key to addressing abuse. Read more...

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Research for North Carolina: Detective work deep in the earth

UNC College of Arts & Sciences seismologist Berk Biryol takes a crack at understanding how the earth is moving under the Southeastern United States. Read More…