Research News

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  • Crystals in a new light
    2/12/26

    A setback in growing light-responsive crystals led UB chemist Jason Benedict and his team to a novel method for mapping molecular arrangements.

  • Pioneering neurosurgeons
    4/23/15

    The "game-changing" stroke treatment reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine was long in coming, with UB neurosurgeons developing many of the techniques back in the 1990s.

  • Neglecting kids leads to aggression, delinquency
    4/23/15

    A new study by UB researchers has found that parents who chronically fail to provide for their children contribute to the likelihood that they will develop aggressive and delinquent tendencies later in adolescence.

  • Happily ever after
    4/23/15

    UB scientists arranged a protein-nanoparticle marriage that could lead to development of an HIV vaccine and target cancer treatment.

  • Arts innovation
    4/17/15

    The Department of Sociology is partnering with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on the gallery’s new AK Innovation Lab.

  • Top entrepreneurs
    4/16/15

    A biotechnology venture that offers a revolutionary new way to deliver cancer drugs has earned three graduate students first place in UB’s Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition.

  • Candidate drug shows promise
    4/16/15

    UB scientists contributed to research on a new drug that may help treat misfolded protein diseases like CMT, Alzheimer's and ALS.

  • Housing study
    4/16/15

    UB faculty member Daniel Hess has received a fellowship from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions program to study the aging socialist-era housing in the Baltic states.

  • Studying sexual assault among sexual minority women
    4/16/15

    UB’s Research Institute on Addictions has received a federal grant to examine the experience of sexual assault among lesbian and bisexual women compared to heterosexual women.

  • Robots on construction sites
    4/9/15

    A four-legged robot under development at UB will be able to climb a ladder and deliver materials to workers laboring up high.

  • The FDA and nutritional supplements
    4/9/15

    UB researchers weigh in on the safety of herbal supplements, with one expert calling this realm the "wild, wild West" due to poor regulation.