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.

  • Hand dryers vs. paper towels
    6/5/14

    UB environmental engineering students examine the environmental impact of bathroom behavior.

  • Infertility: the link with high cholesterol
    6/2/14

    UB biochemist Richard Browne is discovering new clues to impaired fertility as a researcher on a National Institutes of Health-funded study examining fertility and the environment.

  • Big payoff for nonprofits
    5/29/14

    A UB study has found that technology and social media can raise the online profile of nonprofit organizations and increase their support bases and ability to generate donations.

  • Virtual 'bad' behavior may lead to moral sensitivity
    5/29/14

    New evidence suggests 'bad' behavior played out in a virtual environment can lead to players' increased sensitivity toward the moral codes they violated.

  • How long should HCV treatment last?
    5/29/14

    A study led by UB faculty member Andrew Talal is the first to trace in real-time how the drug telaprevir inhibits viral replication in the liver and how it clears hepatitis C virus from infected cells and plasma of infected patients.

  • Improving research experience
    5/26/14

    More than 60 UB faculty and staff gathered last week to discuss how to improve research opportunities for undergraduate students.

  • Spinoff targets cancer
    5/26/14

    Laurent Levy left UB in 1999 with a dream: to transform his postdoctoral research on nanomedicine into real-world products for patients battling cancer. Today, the scientist-turned-entrepreneur is zeroing in on that goal.

  • Collaboration, innovation themes of workshop
    5/22/14

    What innovations are needed to help people remain in their homes as they age? That question was at the center of the discussion during a workshop organized by UB’s Center for Excellence in Home Health and Well-Being through Adaptive Smart Environments (Home-BASE).

  • Maynard receives poetry award
    5/22/14

    A compilation of the work of 20th-century American poet Robert Duncan edited by UB scholar James Maynard has won the inaugural Pegasus Award for Criticism from the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation.

  • Methadone programs key in hepatitis C education
    5/22/14

    People who inject drugs and are enrolled in a drug treatment program are receptive to education about, and treatment for, hepatitis C virus, according to a study by researchers at several institutions, including UB.