• Human neurology research concept.
    Higgins announces grant to UB
    7/1/20

    Jian Feng is principal investigator on the $2.2 million NIH grant to develop a method to diagnose Parkinson’s disease before clinical symptoms are present.

  • Henry Louis Taylor Jr.
    Time to talk about race in the workplace
    6/30/20

    Urban studies expert Henry Louis Taylor Jr. says this moment in history calls for a broad reimagining of societal institutions.

  • E. Brooke Lerner standing in front of the open rear doors of an ambulance.
    Nationwide EMS calls decline 26% since start of pandemic
    6/29/20

    The study also found that EMS-attended deaths have doubled, indicating that when EMS calls were made, they often involved a far more serious emergency.

  • Steven Fliesler stands with arms folded beneath a sign for the Ross Eye Institute's Vision Research Center.
    Rethinking origin of rare disorder that causes blindness
    6/26/20

    UB scientist Steven Fliesler and his colleagues report findings that challenge what was previously believed to cause a form of retinitis pigmentosa.

  • Older woman in a job interview in the office at boardroom.
    Age bias laws don't protect older women as they do men
    6/26/20

    UB economist Joanne Song McLaughlin says older women faces with the possibility of both age and gender discrimination are "falling through the cracks."

  • A fluorescence microscopy image shows hollow, spherical protein-RNA vesicles created in the lab.
    Team uses protein, RNA to make hollow, spherical sacks
    6/24/20

    These bubble-like structures called vesicles — crafted without traditional lipid building blocks — could potentially be engineered to deliver drugs, scientists say.  

  • Concept of the human immune system attacking coronavirus.
    Studying factors for poor COVID-19 outcomes, immunity
    6/23/20

    UB physicians have launched a project to explore both biomedical and public health factors of the pandemic.

  • Gardenia jasminoides.
    Gardenia’s DNA shows that plants are marvelous chemists
    6/22/20

    The species’ newly sequenced genome highlights how evolutionary tinkering transforms plants into some of nature’s great chemical-makers.

  • Female nurse speaking with a male patient who looks troubled.
    Increasing access to behavioral health services
    6/22/20

    The School of Nursing project aims to integrate mental health and substance abuse treatment in primary care clinics in rural communities.

  • Coronavirus.
    Can inhaled steroid help COVID-19 patients?
    6/18/20

    The UB study focuses on non-critical patients, who make up the majority of COVID-19 cases, and potentially pose the highest risk to spread the disease.

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