Geology graduate student William Philipps will travel to the Arctic to collect data to test the prediction that the Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice-Sheet melted later than 12,000 years ago.
UB researchers have found that fear and worry about skin cancer had a bigger influence on people’s use of sunscreen than information about the statistical likelihood of developing the disease.
UB scientists have identified the single transcription factor, or “master switch,” that initiates the critical myelination process in the brain, a finding that is key to developing MS treatments using stem cells.
An abstract by UB faculty member Nitesh D. Kuhadiya on his research on Type 1 diabetes and liraglutide has won the Helmsley Charitable Trust Abstract Award.
UB researchers have found that green algae in the Great Lakes not only protect bacteria such as E. coli and salmonella from destruction by the sun’s ultraviolet rays, but feed the organisms as well.
