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Virtual reality shows promise for early detection of balance problems in multiple sclerosis sufferers

March 11, 2020

CHAPEL HILL – People with multiple sclerosis (MS) often have a greatly increased risk of falling and injuring themselves even…

Duke researchers may have found a path to correcting loss of smell

March 10, 2020

DURHAM – Is it possible for an adult brain to make new nerve cells? Scientists have debated this question for…

New UNC computational tool boosts understanding of genetic disorders affecting the brain

March 10, 2020

CHAPEL HILL – Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and colleagues created a new computational tool called H-MAGMA to…

RTI researchers unveil new Lyme disease model to identify high-risk areas in the US

March 6, 2020

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK — Researchers at RTI International are working to identifying high-risk areas for Lyme disease in the United…

Another biopharma expansion is underway in NC – $54M manufacturing plant

February 28, 2020

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Another major biopharmaceutical manufacturing expansion is being planted in North Carolina soil. FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies U.S.A.,…

World Health Organization picks NCSU to help combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria

February 19, 2020

RALEIGH – The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated North Carolina State University’s Department of Population Health and Pathobiology as…

UNC researchers implicate gene in DNA errors in aggressive breast cancer

February 19, 2020

CHAPEL HILL – A hallmark of triple negative breast cancer, an aggressive breast cancer type, is the accumulation of errors…

A closeup of a pipette carefully placing red droplets into a petri dish.

Booming Triangle sector has nearly 24,500 workers, up 4 percent year-over-year – List Insights

February 19, 2020

One of the Triangle’s more prominent subsets in its burgeoning life sciences is contract research. And this area has become…

Why this company picked NC for a $110 million investment

February 19, 2020

A San-Fransisco gene therapy company knew it wanted a new base outside of California, and it says the Triangle is…