November 13, 2025 | Machine Learning, News, News Rushing
Our findings show a completely novel function of resveratrol that help us understand how it may target cancer cells by altering how they generate energy. By uncovering these shifts in fat metabolism we’re identifying new ways to think about nutrition’s role in cancer research.
September 18, 2025 | Machine Learning, Meyer News, News, News Rushing, Sumner News
Graduate students at the NRI are uncovering how genetics and multi-omics can transform nutrition into a more precise, preventive, and personal science.
August 1, 2025 | Machine Learning, News, News Rushing
Join us on Wednesday, August 20 at noon for a free virtual Appetite for Life event with UNC Assistant Professor of Nutrition Blake Rushing, PhD.
February 28, 2025 | News, News Rushing, Sumner News
Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is a harmful mycotoxin produced by certain fungi and commonly found in staple foods like rice, corn, wheat, and nuts. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), mycotoxin contamination affects up to 25% of...
August 9, 2024 | News, News Rushing, Sumner News
Blake Rushing, PhD, an assistant professor of Nutrition at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI), has been awarded a $3.9M R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a groundbreaking Human Cancer Metabolome Atlas. This project aims to map the complex...
