• Tubes of algae set up in front of grow lights.
    UB engineer joins project to purify water, produce fuel
    8/27/20

    Ian Bradley is part of a $2 million project to study the use of algae to purify wastewater while producing biomass for fuel production.

  • Concept of certainty, a survey response with the "strongly agree" choice selected.
    Study sheds new light on certainty of opinions
    8/25/20

    UB research suggests how attitude certainty might predict behavior on matters other than preexisting options.

  • Microscopic view of taste buds.
    New type of taste cell discovered in mice
    8/25/20

    Multitasking taste cells can sense bitter, sweet, sour and umami stimuli, challenging scientists’ understanding of how taste buds work.

  • Earthworms belonging to the Amynthas species complex alongside a ruler.
    These earthworms are thriving, with destructive potential
    8/24/20

    UB earthworm expert Nick Henshue says the "jumping" worms reduce leaf litter, which is disruptive to the ecosystems of forests.

  • Girl with joint holding a beer bottle.
    Parents, family influence adolescent substance abuse
    8/24/20

    The study found there was a higher proportion of children from alcoholic families that used substances as adolescents compared with those from non-alcoholic families.

  • UB biological sciences faculty member Soo-Kyung Lee and UB biological sciences researcher Younjung Park work in the lab.
    FOXG1 symposium advances science of rare disease
    8/20/20

    UB biologists Soo-Kyung Lee and Jae Lee — whose daughter, Yuna, has FOXG1 syndrome — are among scientists researching the disorder.

  • A human head with a puzzle piece missing, illustrating Alzheimer's disease.
    Stronger case for re-analyzing data in ‘failed’ trials
    8/20/20

    In treating Alzheimer’s disease, precision medicine and genotyping of patients could make a critical difference, UB researchers say.

  • Artist's conception of a pair of young, still-forming stars (background) and the fragmentation of material in a larger cloud in which the stars are born.
    Zurek part of effort to study matter at extreme pressures
    8/17/20

    The UB chemist is a key member of the Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures, which is led by the University of Rochester.

  • Essi Tchalla.
    Neutrophils key to mounting effective immune response
    8/10/20

    The preclinical study is the first to use a pneumonia vaccine that is on the market, instead of a model antigen, to study the immune response triggered by the vaccine.

  • Steven Lipshultz.
    Kids with one type of heart failure face increased risk
    8/7/20

    The UB-led study found that elevated heart rate in children with dilated cardiomyopathy increases their risk of dying or needing a heart transplant.

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