April 23, 2021 | Machine Learning, Uncategorized
Thank you for attending Appetite for Life featuring a Farm to Fork Cooking Demonstration in collaboration with Johnson & Wales University-Charlotte and the Carolina Farm Trust. Please help us evaluate our presentation.
April 19, 2021 | News, Zeisel News
By Amanda Wicks University Communications UNC-Chapel Hill Image by Robert Singh Photography Dr. Steven Zeisel will be stepping down as the UNC Nutrition Research Institute’s director after 13 years, but he leaves behind a legacy that has helped shape a more...
March 30, 2021 | Machine Learning
Thank you for attending Appetite for Life with a Twist on March 31, 2021. Please help us evaluate Dr. Krupenko’s presentation.
March 25, 2021 | News, pub-smith, Smith News
One of the barriers to translating research results from pre-clinical to clinical is when positive results seen in animal models fail to be apparent in humans. Many early-stage studies use a single mouse strain. These mice are genetically homogeneous, and while this...
February 18, 2021 | Brain Health, Mooney News, News, Precision Nutrition, pub-mooney, pub-mooney-environment
While the best defense against fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) remains avoiding alcohol consumption during pregnancy, research has shown that dietary choline supplementation can reduce at least some of the cognitive and behavioral problems associated with FASD...
January 25, 2021 | Brain Health, News, Precision Nutrition, Symposium
Our brains are built and supported by our mothers’ diets and then, by our diets. An individual’s response to incoming nutrition is programmed and very individualized. Maternal nutrition is important for fetal development even before conception: We now know that...
January 21, 2021 | Meyer News, News
Katie Meyer, ScD, is one of many UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) faculty members leading her field through innovative research. Recent technological advances are allowing researchers such as Meyer and her team to substantially broaden our knowledge of the human...
January 21, 2021 | News, Trujillo News, Voruganti News, Zeisel News
UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) researchers were invited participants in the virtual Precision Nutrition: Research Gaps and Opportunities Workshop held by the National Institutes of Health (co-sponsors: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI),...