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HIV Exports Viral Protein in Cellular Packages

UNC Lineberger’s Dirk Dittmer, PhD.

HIV may be able to affect cells it can’t directly infect by packaging a key protein within the host’s cellular mail and sending it out into the body, according to a new study out of a University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center laboratory.

Researchers reported in the journal mBio that the virus uses secreted cellular packages called…

How Solitary Cockroaches Gave Rise to Social Termites: Tales from Two Genomes

This is a guest post by Coby Schal, Blanton J. Whitmire Distinguished Professor of Entomology at NC State. He and co-authors published a paper comparing the genomes of the German cockroach and the drywood termite in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Termites are “social cockroaches.” They evolved from ancestral solitary cockroaches some 150 million years ago, at least 50 million years before bees, ants…

KAIST systems metabolic engineers defined a novel strategy for microbial aromatic polyesters production fused with synthetic biology from renewable biomass. The team of Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering produced aromatic polyesters from Escherichia coli (E. coli) strains by applying microbial fermentation, employing direct microbial…

Three UNC School of Medicine autism research studies led by Joseph Piven, MD, made the end-of-year top research lists of three organizations heavily invested in the advancement of autism research.

The first study, published in Nature last February, used MRIs to show that the babies who developed autism experienced a hyper-expansion of brainsurface area from six to 12 months. Increased growth rate…

In the world’s first field trial with genetically modified banana plants conducted in heavily TR4-infested soil, one Cavendish line transformed with a gene taken from a wild banana remained completely TR4 free, while three other lines showed robust resistance. The results have just been published: “Transgenic Cavendish bananas with resistance to Fusarium wilt tropical race 4” – Nature…

Smart Artificial Beta Cells Could Lead to New Diabetes Treatment

Treating type 1 diabetes and some cases of type 2 diabetes has long required painful and frequent insulin injections or a mechanical insulin pump for insulin infusion. But researchers from the University of North Carolina and NC State have now developed what could be a much more patient-friendly option: artificial cellsthat automatically release insulin into the bloodstream when glucose levels…