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25803
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Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena and his colleagues discovered that the most common types of lab mice studied today represent only a fraction of the genetic diversity found in mouse populations. This could be problematic because many diseases require the ability to study complex and diverse DNA sequences.
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25804
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If a bacterium is resistant to antibiotics, it can donate that resistance to other bacteria by copying DNA strands that contain the resistance genes. UNC scientists have discovered that drugs called bisphosphonates, already approved to treat bone loss, can stop the transfer of antibiotic resistance genes. They can also selectively kill bacterial cells that harbor resistance.
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Matt Redinbo and his colleagues used crystallography to create the first map of the exact structure of an ancient protein. They discovered information that helps to explain how proteins evolve and adapt to new functions.
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The Guatemala City garbage dump is the largest landfill in Central America. The scavengers who recycle the dump’s trash help reduce Guatemala’s waste, but breathe toxic fumes and sift through biohazardous materials to do it. The dump has become a research site for UNC students studying public health, elementary education, or environmental science.
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Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson researches how positive emotions lead to a wide range of life outcomes such as health and satisfaction. Her studies on meditation showed that positive emotions helped people avoid relapse into depression and meet the challenges of life.
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Archaeologists Brett Riggs and Stephen Davis recently discovered Nassaw, the central town of the Catawba tribe, and are looking deeper into the decline of American Indians. Medical student Anthony Fleg started the Native Health Intitiative, which sends student volunteers to Indian communities to learn about tribes and collaborate on health and education issues.
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Marine ecologist John Bruno and his graduate student Elizabeth Selig studied the coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean for two years. They found that the world’s coral reefs are rapidly declining because of global warming and climate change.
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25813
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Sociologist Charles Kurzman studies Iranian revolutions and social movements. His recent study of Iranian attitudes toward gender equality shows that a majority of Iranians are feminists. This finding is a sign that Iranian society may be evolving away from an extreme revolutionary ideology.
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Biologist Jeff Dangl studies the immune systems of plants. His research works on sequencing the genomes of plants and plant pathogens in hopes of identifying the disease-resistance genes of plants that humans rely on.
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Historian Louise McReynolds studies sensationalistic murder cases in Russia. Her analysis of court archives reveal examples of how tradition and pop culture intermingle and produce injustice. Russian judges typically sold tickets to spectators, and many of the trial transcripts were sold as books or made into films.
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Biochemist Jack Griffith and his graduate student Smaranda Wilcox found ancient salt deposits underneath the desert of Roswell, New Mexico. The salt deposits contain the oldest cellulose macromolecules ever found. Griffith suggests that life on other planets would likely be carbon-based.
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Cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton used a model that assumes the existence of a parallel universe to predict a giant void in space before it was observed by other scientists. The void was inconsistent with standard cosmological theory, but has led to new possibilities in research.
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25824
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Kevin Guskiewicz is the director of Carolina’s Sports Medicine Research Laboratory and studies the long-term consequences of football injuries. Guskiewicz is finishing a study of head trauma in college football players. It’s the first research project to ever use state-of-the-art technology to study head trauma during live practices and games.
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Cynthia Bulik and her colleagues are trying to find which genes affect one’s likelihood of developing anorexia. According to their research, both genes and environmental factors can lead people to develop anorexia.
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Waterborne illnesses are a major public health problem in Cambodia, particularly for the rural poor. Doctoral student Joe Brown is trying to help Cambodian people clean their water using a ceramic water filter, locally made from clay, for home use.
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