Hepatitis C virus has evolved to invade and hijack the basic machinery of the human liver cell to ensure its survival and spread. Researchers at the University of North have discovered how hepatitis C binds with and repurposes a basic component of cellular metabolism known as a microRNA to help...
Attention college freshman: If you attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, you must no longer refer to yourself as a "freshman" because your school has determined that this term is offensive, inappropriate and sexist. Really. Going forward, we all need to refer to such students...
For decades, scientists have known that DNA consists of four basic units - adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine. Those four bases have been taught in science textbooks and have formed the basis of the growing knowledge regarding how genes code for life. Yet in recent history, scientists have...
The reverberations began the week before North Carolina faced LSU in their season opener - 12 players were held out of the Tar Heels' roster after multiple violations were brought to light. It was a devastating blow to the program, as 12 players were held out for that opening game, with...
Siemens Healthcare celebrates a milestone of its SOMATOM® Definition AS CT scanner with the 1,000th system installation at the UNC Health Care in Chapel Hill, N.C. The SOMATOM Definition AS is the world's first adaptive scanner. The system intelligently adapts to virtually any patient, adapts...
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year, $13.6 million grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (C-CCNE) based at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, for research to improve the diagnosis and...
In response to complaints from Students for Life of America, the University of North Carolina system will allow students to opt out of abortion coverage in school-sponsored health insurance plans, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. Students who opt out will not save any money because the...
When UNC's point guard, Kendall Marshall, arrives next year, should Coach Roy Williams bench his horribly inept, WILL NEVER BE Ty Lawson "point guard" Larry Drew II?
i have work but i cant miss the heels playing on saturday. the time is TBA.
Dont the number 1 seeds usually play later at night? i get off of work at 3 or 4. i should be safe, right?
I have to pull another prank on UNC... We chalked up their whole campus a few weeks ago. I'm part of a small group of people at NC State called "The Order of The Wolf". It has to be LEGAL. Any ideas?