Research News

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  • UB launches Center for Translational AI and Digital Health
    6/8/26

    Center will advance emerging medical technologies that improve the speed, precision and accessibility in which people receive care.

  • Just Food, Just Communities
    11/5/15

    The UB Food Lab is co-sponsoring an event designed to bring together community partners, scholars, students and residents to discuss the links between racial, economic and food injustices, and strategies to address them.

  • WHI gets extension
    11/5/15

    UB has received a five-year extension of its involvement with the Women’s Health Initiative, the groundbreaking study that has yielded major discoveries on chronic diseases that affect postmenopausal women.

  • Tracing family roots
    11/5/15

    Descendants of authors of slave narratives attending a groundbreaking UB workshop discuss their histories, identities and personal stories.

  • Effective advertising
    11/2/15

    Web advertising in which the product changes direction while moving across the screen is more effective than static ads, according to research by the School of Management.

  • Distance influences attraction
    10/29/15

    UB research has found that qualities admired in another from far away can be threatening as that person approaches.  

  • Can changes in the brain affect your microbiome?
    10/29/15

    A UB study of patients with irritable bowel syndrome who are undergoing behavioral self-management may strengthen our understanding of the brain-gut connection.

  • Discrepancies common between reported medical outcomes, trial registry data
    10/29/15

    A study covering clinical trial publications about headaches led by UB neurologist Melissa Rayhill found significant selective reporting, suggesting potential pitfalls in the peer review process.

  • Pacemaker makeover
    10/29/15

    The next generation of the medical marvel that has extended millions of lives may be powered by an unlikely source: the heart.

  • Tired of ‘insiders’
    10/29/15

    UB political scientist Jacob Neiheisel credits the popularity of populist candidates to the public's weariness with the Washington establishment.

  • Cell traffic controller
    10/22/15

    A new UB study shows that the Huntingtin protein, which is responsible for Huntington’s disease, controls the movement of precious cargo inside the cells that form the core of the nervous system, shedding light on the root causes of the neurodegenerative disorder.