A team led by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine discovered an important vulnerability of the AIDS-causing retrovirus HIV and has shown in preclinical experiments that a widely used diabetes drug, metformin, seems able to exploit this vulnerability.
Venus Standard, an assistant clinical professor in the UNC School of Medicine, will lead the program with the goal of lowering elevated birth risks for Black women.
Laboratory experiments have shown mouthwash can quickly kill coronaviruses, but there’s no evidence mouthwash can prevent the virus from infecting people. The Adams School of Dentistry is investigating how well mouthwash works to reduce the amount of SARS-CoV-2.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a critical need for medical laboratory professionals — or those who work tirelessly behind the scenes in laboratories across the United States — to develop, perform and interpret diagnostic tests, among other duties.