Posts Tagged ‘University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’
Health & Medicine - Nov 16, 2009 14:00 - 29 Comments
‘Female Viagra’ targets brain to boost sex drive
UNC CHAPEL HILL (US)—A drug originally designed to fight depression has shown to increase sex drive in women with low libido. (more…)
Earth & Environment, Science & Technology - Oct 22, 2009 16:43 - 0 Comments
New clues in quest for liquid methane
UNC-CHAPEL HILL/U. WASHINGTON (US)—Researchers have taken an important step in converting methane gas to a liquid, potentially making it more useful as a fuel and as a source for making other chemicals. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 15, 2009 18:04 - 7 Comments
Imagination helps kids cope with pain
UNC CHAPEL HILL (US)—Children with functional abdominal pain who combined the use of guided imagery with standard medical treatment were almost three times as likely to improve their pain problem, compared to children who received standard treatment alone. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 6, 2009 11:46 - 0 Comments
BPA making toddler girls grow aggressive?
UNC CHAPEL HILL (US)—The first study to examine a possible link between prenatal bisphenol A (BPA) exposure and behavior problems in children finds that daughters of women exposed to BPA early in pregnancy are more likely to have unusually aggressive and hyperactive behaviors as 2-year-olds. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 21, 2009 18:32 - 2 Comments
Gene bends rules of brain development
UNC CHAPEL HILL (US)—A critical gene has been identified in determining if the brain will develop normally. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 16, 2009 19:07 - 3 Comments
Blood vessel growth’s an inside job
“The blood vessels themselves seem to participate in the process guiding the formation of the vascular network,” says senior study author Victoria Bautch.
Health & Medicine - Sep 10, 2009 12:51 - 1 Comment
Low-cost bed nets prove priceless
Malaria, which is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes, is common among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa and is a major contributing factor to low birth weights and infant deaths in that region.
Health & Medicine - Sep 2, 2009 13:24 - 5 Comments
Black patients seen, not heard
“There are several possible reasons why [black patients] may talk less to their physicians. They might not trust the physician or feel that they are ‘disconnected’ from their doctors, for whatever reasons,” says lead author Crystal Wiley Cené.
Earth & Environment - Aug 31, 2009 11:52 - 1 Comment
Move over trees. Here comes the sun
Scientists are exploring new ways to tap the sun’s energy directly, without the help of plants, to create potential fuel sources. “The main problem with current solar power technology is that if the sun’s not shining, you’re out of luck,” says Tom Meyer. “Solar fuels give us the ability to collect and stockpile that energy.”
Earth & Environment - Aug 25, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments
Warmer oceans tangle food chain
Dina Leech and Virginia Schutte collect zooplankton from Bogue Sound using a plankton tow net. Plankton from the net were rinsed into a sieve and then added to the experimental microcosms. (Credit: Mary O’Connor/UNC)
Health & Medicine - Aug 20, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments
Light’s a total turnoff for protein
A photoactivatable protein enables control of cell movement in living cells. Activation of Rac in the red circle (left) led to localized cell protrusion and translocation of the kinase PAK to the cell edge (right hand image, Pak in red). (Credit: Yi Wu)
Health & Medicine - Aug 18, 2009 10:26 - 0 Comments
Potent target for stopping colon cancer
“If we can use an inhibitor to block ERBB3, then it should be a very potent anti-cancer therapeutic,” says the study’s lead author David Threadgill.
Society & Culture - Aug 18, 2009 4:00 - 2 Comments
Even in small doses, happiness is healthy
“The levels of positive emotions that produced good benefits weren’t extreme. Participants with average and stable levels of positive emotions still showed growth in resilience even when their days included negative emotions,” says study author Barbara Fredrickson.
Health & Medicine - Aug 13, 2009 11:25 - 1 Comment
Why ‘breast is best’ for women, too
“Our results suggest a woman can lower her risk of cancer simply by breastfeeding her children,” says lead author Alison Stuebe.
Health & Medicine - Aug 11, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments
In gay community, tobacco is king
A new study shows shows that as many as 37 percent of homosexual women and 33 percent of homosexual men smoke. That compares to national smoking rates of 18 percent for women and 24 percent for men in the 2006 National Health Interview Survey.
Earth & Environment - Aug 10, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments
In African rocks, traces of evolutionary blast
UNC CHAPEL HILL (US)—New research has opened the door on what some consider to be the greatest event in the history of animal life: a massive evolutionary jumpstart during the Cambrian Explosion half a billion years ago. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 6, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments
Case cracked: Team decodes HIV genome structure
A research team has decoded the secondary structure of a complete HIV-1 RNA genome. According to the report featured on the cover of the August 6 issue of the journal Nature, the team identified numerous highly structured motifs—such as the one pictured above—and can infer functions for many of these motifs. (Credit: Lars Sahl/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Health & Medicine - Aug 4, 2009 10:29 - 0 Comments
Active commuters more fit, less fat
“Ultimately it would be wonderful to see more people walking and biking to work, but to make this happen, we need to make walking and biking safe and accessible by reducing environmental barriers to activity,” says study author Penny Gordon-Larsen.
