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Healthy cells throughout the body coordinate activities with their immediate neighbors by sending chemical and electrical signals across tiny passageways called gap-junction channels. When a cell's health is compromised, as a result of trauma or disease, healthy cells around it protect themselves by closing these channels and shutting off communication.

Spouses of cardiac patients need quick medical information, access to people who have had the same experience, and support from family, friends or a formal group to help their loved ones recover and to cope personally with the trauma, a University at Buffalo study has shown.

Changing the type and method of administering anesthesia and pain killers to high-risk surgery patients can dramatically reduce the risk of postoperative cardiac abnormalities, and possibly lessen the chance of heart attack, University at Buffalo researchers have found.

Never willing to leave well enough alone, scientists have long tried to get things to stick to Teflon. From electronics to biomedicine, a nonstick material that was sticky in some places would have tremendous applications. But any method that seemed to work ended up destroying the surface.

Alan J. Drinnan, M.D., D.D.S., professor and chair of the Department of Oral Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, has been named president of the American Board of Oral Pathology.

Philip Coppens, Ph.D., distinguished professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest federation of scientists. Fellows are those members of the AAAS who have made significant contributions toward advancing science.

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a grant to the University at Buffalo Toxicology Research Center to train workers who will be remediating sites containing hazardous and radioactive wastes from the Manhattan Project and other government and industrial projects.

Nearly every molecule can exist in several states: its ground, or stable, state and its excited states. Chemists have long known that the excited states of molecules may hold some of the secrets of chemical reactions because molecules often pass through these states just before reacting. But attempts to measure excited molecules have not been successful.

Mary Finnick, gnsh, clinical assistant professor of nursing at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded a $398,407 training grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to establish a comprehensive continuing education program for rural Western New York nurses.

The "peace dividend" has provided a unique opportunity for MBA students at the University at Buffalo to gain valuable experience and to help improve the Western New York economy by working with local defense contractors to try to bring the companies' technologies into the broader marketplace.