Research News

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  • Explaining why RNA droplets form
    8/21/26

    UB-led research reveals that a tiny chemical difference between RNA and DNA helps explain why RNA more readily organizes into droplets when temperatures rise.

  • School choice and income segregation
    7/22/26

    Parents tend to avoid classrooms populated by a large number of students from low-income families, UB psychologists say.

  • Where there's smoke, fewer birds
    7/21/26

    UB study compared air quality data with birdwatching reports, including during historic 2023 wildfire season.

  • Creating complex drugs, quicker
    7/20/26

    Surprisingly simple tools allow UB chemists to modify two carbon atoms in a single reaction.

  • Testing eye health with quantum optics
    7/16/26

    Engineered light transforms Boehm’s brushes from a faint visual pattern into a much brighter one that could help catch retinal disease.

  • Tracking police accountability
    7/16/26

    School of Management study links newspaper closures to distorted crime reporting.

  • Researching neutral-atom quantum computing
    7/15/26

    UB physicist receives two federal grants totaling $1.1 million to advance future quantum technologies.

  • Fighting CF infections with phages
    7/15/26

    UB pharmacy professor Nicholas Smith is working with researchers at NIH-funded center at Stanford University.

  • AI helps MS researchers see brain lesions
    7/14/26

    UB-led team has found a way to use AI to reveal these otherwise invisible cortical lesions by reviewing existing MRI scans.

  • For A-fib and Type 2 diabetes, GLP-1s win out
    7/13/26

    Pharmacy study finds GLP-1 drugs perform better than SGLT-2i medications in patients with both conditions.

  • NIH renews T32 training grant
    7/13/26

    UB has received five years of funding to continue its long-running Research Training on Alcohol Etiology and Treatment program.