- COVID-19 vaccines offer lasting protection. Declining immunity is responsible for breakthrough infections, but vaccines maintained protection from hospitalization and severe disease nine months after getting the first shot. https://uncnews.unc.edu/2022/01/12/study-shows-covid-19-vaccines-offer-lasting-protection/ 625 comments science
- A 3D printed vaccine patch offers vaccination without a shot https://uncnews.unc.edu/2021/09/23/a-3d-printed-vaccine-patch-offers-vaccination-without-a-shot/ 80 comments technology
- Vaccination efforts made in the world’s poorest countries since 2001 will have prevented 20 million deaths and saved $350 billion in health-care costs by 2020, as reported in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. http://uncnews.unc.edu/2017/09/01/vaccines-save-20-million-lives-350-billion-poor-countries-since-2001/ 32 comments science
- Study describes how human stem cells, made from human skin cells, can hunt down and kill human brain cancer, a critical step toward clinical trials—and real treatment. http://uncnews.unc.edu/2017/02/01/revolutionary-approach-treating-glioblastoma-works-human-cells/ 5 comments science
- Carolina’s Laura Mersini-Houghton shows that black holes do not exist http://uncnews.unc.edu/2014/09/23/carolinas-laura-mersini-houghton-shows-black-holes-exist/ 16 comments science
- Antibiotics give rise to new communities of harmful bacteria; Researchers identify unexpected activity of antibiotics, potentially reshaping our understanding of why antibiotics evolved and pointing to broad health implications http://uncnews.unc.edu/2015/02/23/antibiotics-give-rise-new-communities-harmful-bacteria/ 4 comments science
- Loud talking and horseplay in car results in more serious incidents for teen drivers: Adolescent drivers are often distracted by technology while they are driving, but loud conversations and horseplay between passengers appear more likely to result in a dangerous incident, according to a new study https://uncnews.unc.edu/2014/04/17/loud-talking-horseplay-car-results-serious-incidents-teen-drivers/ 8 comments science
- Women entrepreneurs have limited chances to lead their new businesses: Women who start new businesses with men have limited opportunities to move into leadership roles; when they co-found a business with their husbands, they have even fewer chances to be in charge, say researchers http://uncnews.unc.edu/2014/04/03/women-entrepreneurs-limited-chances-lead-new-businesses/ 3 comments science
- Human cells respond in healthy, unhealthy ways to different kinds of happiness http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/6145/107/ 7 comments science
- After years of scientific uncertainty and speculation, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill show exactly how trees help create one of society’s predominant environmental and health concerns: air pollution http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5998/107/ 4 comments science
- Boys in the United States are entering puberty much earlier than in the past—in some cases as early as age 9, new research shows http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5649/1/ 27 comments science