High blood pressure continues to affect more blacks than whites, despite suggestions that the differential has equalized over time, a comparison of blood pressure readings from studies conducted 26 years apart has shown.
Women over 35 who give birth for the first time are 50 percent more likely than younger mothers to deliver a pre-term or low-birth-weight baby, epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo have found.
Engineers at the University at Buffalo have developed a new material out of skinny, nickel filaments that provides better shielding against electromagnetic interference than any materials currently on the market.
Researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown that humans produce more free radicals as they grow older, and experience increased damage caused by these unstable molecules after the age of 70.
Corticosteroid drugs, administered to fight inflammation and suppress the immune response, may produce their results by slowing the generation of damaging free radicals, researchers at the University at Buffalo have reported.
University at Buffalo researchers studying the inner ears of chinchillas have discovered that some ears can spontaneously broadcast intense sounds that are transmitted into the brain and mask external sounds of similar frequencies. These sounds, called spontaneous otoacoustic emissions, are loud enough to be heard by others standing nearby.
Pioneering research by University at Buffalo endocrinologists investigating estrogen function in humans has demonstrated for the first time that microvascular endothelial cells -- cells in the lining of the smallest blood vessels -- produce estrogen and express estrogen receptor.
Researchers from the University at Buffalo are the first to show that the sperm of diabetic men sustain significant DNA damage due to free-radical oxidation.
University at Buffalo researchers have demonstrated for the first time that diabetics experience increased damage to body proteins due to the oxidative action of free radicals.
A powerful human protein that destroys pathogens by depriving them of the iron they need to grow has been cloned, expressed and purified by University at Buffalo biologists, who have filed for patent protection on the research.
