It can be easy to blame e-scooter-related problems on their riders, but a national study from the UNC Highway Safety Research Center finds a boom in ridership has left municipalities playing catch-up.

Human noroviruses are divided into more than 35 genotypes, making it impossible to find one “silver bullet” vaccine. A new study led by Gillings virologists homed in on the fact that variants within the GII.4 genotype currently cause 50-70% of all norovirus outbreaks in the world, driven by emergent virus variants.

An eight-legged brown creature about a quarter inch in size could make you want to skip out on your next cheeseburger. Carolina researchers have been studying the impacts of the tick-bite-induced allergy called Alpha-gal syndrome.

A self-proclaimed foodie, Ph.D. candidate Katie Tardio is researching why we eat the foods we eat in order to deepen our cultural understanding of ancient societies and how they evolved over centuries.

For this Women’s History Month, the School of Medicine would like to honor Mary Ellen Jones. You may know her name from the building that sits on the edge of the UNC Medical Center campus, but Jones is recognized for so much more.