Research News

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  • Genetic variant may be key to some kids' heart failure
    12/12/25

    The findings of a study strongly suggest that genetic testing should be done on all children with heart failure and myocarditis.

  • UB engineer looks at e-waste recycling in Bangladesh
    9/14/22

    Working with a team of scientists, Nirupam Aich studies pollution and health risks from disassembling discarded gadgets.

  • Novel tactics helped extroverts adapt during pandemic
    9/13/22

    A new UB study found that socializing strategies that allowed extroverts to be both social and distant helped them feel happier than introverts.

  • UB CAT invests $253,000 in six life sciences companies
    9/13/22

    The companies are developing treatments for cancer, neurovascular diseases and more.

  • Engineering faculty receive NSF CAREER awards
    9/8/22

    Their projects will tackle pressing societal concerns ranging from racial inequality in the U.S. to PFAS pollution, better semiconductors and energy conservation.

  • Democracy’s world of challenges
    9/7/22

    A new book by UB's James A. Gardner looks at the current thought on the state of the world’s democracies and the struggle to make self-governance work — one nation at a time.

  • Developing more effective TB vaccine
    9/6/22

    UB faculty member Jonathan Lovell has received funding from the NIH to design protein nanoparticle vaccines and test their efficacy.

  • New insight into Etruscan life under Rome
    9/1/22

    The site of the excavation led by UB archaeologist Alessandro Sebastiani is one of the few untouched by looters.

  • The evolution of mucus: How did we get all this slime?
    8/30/22

    In mammals, proteins called mucins evolved — again and again — by co-opting non-mucin proteins in a surprising way, study suggests.

  • UB astrophysicist explains wormholes
    8/29/22

    Dejan Stojkovic says a wormhole is like a tunnel between two distant points in our universe that cuts the travel time from one point to the other.

  • How mitochondrial defects lead to accelerated aging
    8/24/22

    UB researchers have developed powerful new ways to study and potentially reverse the cellular mechanisms that cause mitochondrial diseases and premature aging.