Articles by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Wearable patch featuring on-demand drug delivery could be the next frontier in treatment of neurodegenerative disorders

High-powered microscopic images show startlingly high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads on human respiratory surfaces, ready to spread infection in infected individuals and to others

In preclinical tests, researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill and Oregon Health and Sciences University showed how a new compound can immobilize sperm temporarily without side effects

The research, published in the journal Cell, shows a route toward creating opioids that relieve pain without causing the severe side effects at the heart of the opioid epidemic

American and New Zealand researchers use experimental evidence to overturn widely-accepted theory on the dawn of life on Earth

In two previous studies, University of North Carolina researchers and colleagues linked infant brain anatomy differences to autism diagnoses at age two. Now they show differences in functional connections between brain regions at 6 months to predict autism at age two

Implant could offer long-acting, removable form of prevention not currently available

University of North Carolina scientists found that mucin proteins, which make mucus thick and sticky, fail to unfold properly in the airways of people with cystic fibrosis. And they found the lack of water in the lung can trigger the misfolding mucins

In a recently published study, researchers describe how inflammation can go unchecked in the absence of a certain inflammation inhibitor called NLRP12

With a whiff of the opposite sex, these hormone-sensitive neurons trigger pro-social behavior in mice and could play roles in anxiety, depression, and other mood-related conditions in humans