http://www.buffalo.edu/news/list-page.html?key=d-research en-US Copyright 2008, University at Buffalo 2008-08-21T10:14:55-04:00 ub-news@buffalo.edu ub-news@buffalo.edu http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9573 A novel gene signaling mechanism that controls whether a stem cell develops into its destined tissue or fails to differentiate and becomes cancer has been identified by researchers in the multi-laboratory Molecular and Structural Neurobiology and Gene Therapy Program based at the University at Buffalo. 2008-08-14T00:00:00-04:00 95730009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9559 According to researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA), the odds of 18- and 19-year-old college women experiencing sexual aggression are 19 times greater when they binge drink than when they don't drink. 2008-08-06T00:00:00-04:00 95590009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9546 Children born with hydrocephalus, or "water on the brain" must have shunts implanted to drain the fluid away from the brain to reduce harmful pressure. While shunts do their job well, the rate of shunt infection in children is very high for a variety of reasons. Now a new trial conducted by faculty at the University at Buffalo has shown that using antimicrobial sutures to secure the shunt and close the wound significantly reduces the number of shunt infections arising during the first six months after surgery. 2008-07-25T00:00:00-04:00 95460009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9545 Over the last decade, energy drinks -- such as Red Bull, Monster and Rockstar -- have become nearly ubiquitous on college campuses. Although few researchers have examined energy drink consumption, a researcher at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) has been investigating links between energy drinks and public health concerns like substance abuse and risky behaviors. 2008-07-24T00:00:00-04:00 95450009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9521 Pharmaceutical researchers at the University at Buffalo have joined forces with scientists from several of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to tackle fundamental research questions that need to be answered to advance development of promising protein-based drugs. 2008-07-15T00:00:00-04:00 95210009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9516 Researchers at the University at Buffalo -- the first to identify the anti-inflammatory and cardioprotective properties of insulin -- now have discovered one pathway through which the hormone produces this effect. 2008-07-11T00:00:00-04:00 95160009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9480 Persons with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can relieve their symptoms as effectively by following a self-administered, at-home cognitive behavioral program as they can by undergoing a 10-week in-office program administered by a trained therapist, a new pilot study has shown. 2008-06-25T00:00:00-04:00 94800009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9476 Anticipating what is likely to be one of the most interesting elections in modern history, University at Buffalo professor of political science James E. Campbell and Michael S. Lewis-Beck, professor of political science at the University of Iowa, have assembled the insights of prominent election forecasters in a special issue of the International Journal of Forecasting published this month. 2008-06-20T00:00:00-04:00 94760009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9458 Bloodsucking pests like bat fleas and bat flies may not sound very appealing to the rest of us, but to University at Buffalo biologist Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz, Ph.D., they are among the most successful creatures evolution has ever produced. 2008-06-17T00:00:00-04:00 94580009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9452 Experiments conducted in the laboratory of University at Buffalo chemist John P. Richard were spotlighted recently in the national scientific press, including a news article in the journal <i>Nature</i>, because they led to the retractions of two important scientific papers. 2008-06-17T00:00:00-04:00 94520009