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First study in NRI's Metabolic Chamber leads to metabolism breakthrough

June 30, 2014 | science in action

The UNC NRI is home to one of the few metabolic chambers (whole room calorimeters) in the country and to the only one in the sate of North Carolina. This unique tool offers the most accurate way available to assess metabolism because it measures energy expenditure...

Mother's diet before pregnancy may change gene-expression of offspring

June 30, 2014 | science in action

An epigenetic study conducted by NRI scientist Mihai Niculescu, M.D., Ph.D., shows that in mice, maternal nutrition during pregnancy and lactation can have a significant impact upon the offspring’s ability to use its own nutrients during early life....

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is much more common than expected

June 30, 2014 | science in action

An $8.9 million grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is allowing NRI scientist Philip May, Ph.D., to examine the prevalence and characteristics of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the United...

Study Identifies Gene Associated with Male Infertility

June 30, 2014 | science in action, Zeisel News

Fifteen of every hundred couples in the world who want to have children find it difficult or impossible to conceive. In about half those couples, the difficulty results from the male partner’s fertility. Now researchers at UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI),...

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