A genetic mutation that alters the kinetics of an ion channel in red blood cells has been identified as the cause behind a hereditary anemia, according to a paper published this month by UB scientists.
Patients who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome often are surprised to find that behavioral changes, not drugs, provide significant relief. Now, UB researchers are using brain imaging to reveal the biological basis for the relief.
Tactus Technologies has developed a first-of-its-kind, virtual-reality training program for forklift operators, a product that company officials expect will reduce work-related injuries and deaths.
Further evidence that a program of controlled, progressive aerobic exercise may help restore normal cognitive function in patients who have sustained a concussion has been published by researchers at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
For what may be the first time, researchers have discovered a virus inside a host with a non-standard nuclear genetic code—one that differs from the standard genetic code that almost all living things use to produce proteins.
Postmenopausal women who have smoked are at much higher risk of losing their teeth than women who never smoked, according to a new study by UB researchers.
The cleanup of one of Brooklyn’s hottest neighborhoods holds lessons for preserving a community’s industrial identity in the face of gentrification, a new study finds.
A brick wall imitating part of a New York City row house (often called a “brownstone”) suffered minor damage but remained intact during a simulation of the 2011 Virginia earthquake, according to a preliminary analysis of tests conducted Feb. 19 at UB.
Tonus Therapeutics, a UB spinoff that is developing a muscular dystrophy drug discovered first in the venom of a South American spider, has moved into UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
