• Woman undergoing chemotheraphy, with a doctor at her side.
    New formula better predicts speed of tumor growth
    4/4/19

    Current methods can overestimate cancer growth, hindering clinicians aiblity to schedule screenings and plan treatment.

  • Cecil Foster.
    Book details railroad workers’ efforts for civil rights
    4/3/19

    The new book by UB faculty member Cecil Foster shows the impact of the sleeping car porters on the civil rights movements in the U.S. and Canada.

  • A conceptual illustration featuring two brains with different patterns of activity in each brain.
    Study illuminates brain activity
    4/3/19

    UB-led research assesses how large-scale patterns of brain activity could vary between cognitive systems and across people.

  • U.S. Department of Energy logo.
    UB engineer awarded grant to develop aerogel insulation
    4/2/19

    The material could help reduce utility bills, improve energy efficiency of residential and commercial buildings.

  • human prostate cancer metastatic lesions have been stained to indicate the presence of myosin IC isoform A, a biomarker of metastatic prostate cancer.
    Metastatic prostate cancer may have its own biomarker
    4/2/19

    In collaboration with Russian scientists, UB researchers are focused on determining how to detect the biomarker for metastatic prostate cancer.

  • Overhead view of two student watching a streamed television show on a laptop.
    Binge-watching blues
    4/1/19

    UB researcher Jessica Kruger looks at the health effects of the popular pastime of watching hours upon hours of television shows.

  • Rep. brian higgins at a podium at a press conference announcing NIH funding for the Hunter James Kelly Research Institute. Standing to the side of Higgins are norma Nowak and Laura Feltri.
    New approach to Krabbe’s Disease
    3/28/19

    The NIH has awarded $2 million to UB’s Hunter James Kelly Research Institute to pursue a new direction in understanding and curing the fatal disease.

  • Sara Metcalff in a greenhouse.
    Including human perceptions into climate models
    3/26/19

    UB geographer Sara Metcalf and colleagues have been working to integrate people's perceptions of climate risk into climate models.  

  • A pile of pills and capsules.
    Common heartburn meds linked to kidney disease, failure
    3/21/19

    The UB study examined 190,000 patients over 15 years and found that acid reflux drugs increase the risk of kidney disease by 20 percent.

  • A series of test tubes filled with DNA helixes.
    How hot spots of genetic variation evolved in DNA
    3/21/19

    New research led by biologist Omer Gokcumen uncovers a complex story that hints at how adaptable — yet delicate — humans are as a species.

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