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UNC’s ViVE center — that houses all the data — was partly funded through the National Institutes of Health for over $3 million over the course of five years.
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Duke’s collection of more than 800,000 specimens of fungi, plants and algae makes the herbarium one of the largest in the country. The move to close it has drawn criticism from faculty and researchers nationwide.
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North Carolina State University researchers have developed a naturally-sourced material that could aid efforts to reduce plastic films, like ones used in food packaging.
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Only 4% of universities in the U.S. hold an elite research designation called R1 and they are all historically white. North Carolina A&T State University, a Historically Black College and University, is working to change that.
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Deputies from the Pender County Sheriff’s Office had found three men unresponsive in a privately owned Lexus sedan in Hampstead. Autopsies performed last week by the North Carolina medical examiner’s office determined that all three died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
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A new funding opportunity is available for a North Carolina grad student to study these habitats developing across the state’s East Coast.
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High blood sugar in test animals created more buildup of toxic proteins that give rise to Alzheimer's disease, researchers found.
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North Carolina researchers were awarded more than $2 billion in National Institutes of Health research grants last year. More than half of that went to just two universities: Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill.
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The long-running bird census is an annual conservation effort done by volunteers in the U.S and North Carolina to help keep track of bird species.
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Through the collaborative, nanomaterials could be integrated into yarn and woven fabric clothing for soldiers.