biological sciences

Mar 15, 2023

How To Reduce PFAS in Your Drinking Water, According to Experts

CNN
“Some of these chemicals have half-lives in the range of five years,” National Academies committee member Jane Hoppin, an environmental epidemiologist and director of the Center for Human Health and the Environment at NC State University, told CNN.

Mar 14, 2023

Residents’ Frustration Grows at Slow Progress To Address PFAS Pollution in Their Water

North Carolina Health News
In 2017-18, NC State researchers launched a PFAS exposure study in which they collected and analyzed 344 blood samples collected from Wilmington residents.

Mar 9, 2023

Intact Dinosaur Veins Were Running With Blood 80 Million Years Ago

IFL Science
“Part of the value of this research is that it gives us insight into how proteins can modify and change over 80 million years," added Mary Schweitzer, a molecular paleontologist and professor at NC State.

Feb 17, 2023

2022-23 University Faculty Scholars Named

Kurt Marsden and Tien Khai Nguyen in the College of Sciences have been named University Faculty Scholars.

Jan 25, 2023

What Do Researchers Know About the Health Impacts of GenX?

WTVF
GenX doesn’t build up in our bodies, the way other PFAS chemicals do, but long term exposure could still pose health risks, says Jane Hoppin, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.

Jan 19, 2023

Velociraptors Probably Didn’t Use Their ‘Wicked’ Claws for Slashing, Surprising New Study Suggests

Live Science
Dromaeosaurid claws don’t resist side-to-side force well, said James Napoli, a paleontologist and postdoctoral researcher at NC State and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

Jan 18, 2023

How Shapeless Blobs of Cells Grow Into Wriggling Worms

Science
“We are beginning to get at how a larva produces an adult body plan,” said Christina Zakas, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.

Jan 6, 2023

NC State Study: College Textbooks Aren’t Keeping Pace With Climate Change Science

Yahoo! News
NC State researchers have found that climate change science is not getting enough coverage in college biology textbooks.

Jan 4, 2023

Persistence Pays Off

Goodnight Scholar Jesús Vina Moreno came to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic to attend college. After earning his bachelor’s in biological sciences, he’s one step closer to his goal of becoming a doctor.

Dec 22, 2022

Climate Impacts Are Increasing; Textbooks Aren’t Keeping Pace

Biology textbooks are failing to share adequate information about climate change.