Igniting Hope conference has matured into a movement aimed at bringing lasting change to the region by ending race-based disparities and their devastating impacts.
Infectious disease expert Oscar G. Gómez-Duarte talks with UBNow about the alarming surge in these viruses among kids and what parents can do to keep them healthy.
Virtually all Western New Yorkers who are now infected with COVID-19 have the delta variant, UB scientists say, making vaccinations, masking and social distancing increasingly important.
But UB scientists doing genomic sequencing on the coronavirus say the good news is that U.S. vaccines protect against all the variants that are circulating.
UB and the Buffalo Museum of Science will host Conversations in Science: COVID Vaccines, a free online event that will allow the public to present questions and lingering concerns to researchers and health care workers.
The Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences' partnership with Circuit Clinical will provide WNY patients access toCOVID-19 clinical research opportunities.
University at Buffalo researchers discovered that the human diet — a result of increased meat consumption, cooking and agriculture — has led to stark differences in the saliva of humans compared to that of other primates.
Students are using CRISPR to alter yeast genes in a course on genetics at UB that also asks them to consider the technology’s potential societal implications.
The “true interdisciplinarian” will discuss robotics, virtual reality and the intelligence of art at the event uniting artists and scientists to share ideas.
Using human stem cells, his lab is developing technologies and tools to grow personalized, three-dimensional internal organs, such as the liver and pancreas.
Western New Yorkers are invited to SciNight: Diving into Your DNA, an event hosted by the Buffalo Museum of Science and the University at Buffalo Community of Excellence in Genome, Environment and Microbiome, where guests can create a necklace made from their own DNA and learn from local scientists about DNA testing and the makeup of our genetic material.
UB researchers have discovered several biomarkers that can accurately identify hypervirulent K. pneumoniae. A commentary paper about the research calls the discovery "a major step forward."
Elevated bile acids in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease point to the potential for novel interventions, such as personalized probiotics.
The University at Buffalo Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts will welcome seven artists from around the world to explore life’s greatest questions through biological art residencies.
UB art professor Paul Vanouse received the Award of Distinction in the Hybrid Art category of the 2017 Prix Ars Electronica, the premiere cyberarts festival and competition in the world.
Jennifer Surtees, associate professor of biochemistry at UBuffalo, uses yeast proteins as the basis for her research to improve cancer treatments. NYSUT article by Liza Frenette. Photo credit: Dennis Stierer.
Science and art will fuse through the new UB performance, “Dance in Process — Process in Dance,” that uses movement to explore the idea of the human body as host for tiny forms of life.
Recent visitors to Coalesce: Center for Biological Art, a hybrid research space in Hochstetter Hall, may have wondered what was up with the locker room smell. There are no signs of any sweaty athletes.
From Nov. 14-18, UB will host Mind Your Microbiome and Get Smart About Antibiotics Week, a series of public events that aim to educate the community about the microbes that live in and on our bodies.
Researchers at the University at Buffalo have received a $239,000 grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to study what happens when seemingly harmless bacteria overstay their welcome.
Eight artists from around the world will travel to UB to explore life’s greatest questions through biological art residencies in the Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts.
Jennifer A. Surtees, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry, has been selected by her peers to join the editorial board of the scientific journal Genetics.
The University at Buffalo is establishing a new center to conduct research on the human microbiome, the collective microorganisms that live on and in the human body.
The Genome, Environment and Microbiome (GEM) community — part of a University at Buffalo initiative that seeks new approaches to global challenges — has had its inaugural meeting.
An interactive display reveals the microbial drama inside the body. It's part of an exhibition that opened in November at the American Museum of Natural History. NY Times article by William Grimes. photo credit: Jake Naughton
UB is investing $25 million in an initiative that will harness the strengths of UB faculty from disciplines across the university to confront grand challenges facing humankind.
Scores of leading scientists on Wednesday urged the creation of a major initiative to better understand the microbial communities critical to both human health and every ecosystem.
Can brain changes affect your gut microbiome? And if so, do these changes affect your health and well-being? A University at Buffalo researcher is leading a pilot study to answer that question.
Each May, the Amherst Chamber of Commerce recognizes individuals and companies that support Western New York through their business and community service.
Norma Jean Nowak, PhD, a renowned research scientist, educator, collaborator and entrepreneur, has been named executive director of the University at Buffalo’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (CBLS).
UB has been awarded a prestigious, four-year, $15 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health to speed the delivery of new drugs, diagnostics and medical devices to patients.
