• Photo illustration showing how Garwood Medical Devices' Biofilm Disruption Device™ (BDD™) works.
    Joint replacement infection?
    3/13/19

    Researchers are developing a device that delivers low-voltage to the joint replacement, creating an antibacterial environment that stops infections.

  • Woman using a smartphone in an urban neighborhood.
    Online neighborhood reviews could aid urban planning
    3/11/19

    Online data can tell us a lot about the places where we live — if we can develop ways to analyze it, UB researchers say.

  • Two round protein droplets move toward one another.
    Scientists use laser ‘tweezers’ to grab tiny protein droplets
    3/11/19

    The new research by UB physicists illuminates some basic properties of these eccentric marvels of biology.

  • Concept of narcissism: silhouette of people holding up one person who is wearing a crown and pointing to them self.
    Narcissists constrain team performance
    3/11/19

    Narcissists make bad teammates — both in the NBA and in your workplace, according to a new study from the School of Management.

  • Young gamer looking at screen and playing video games on computer in dark room wearing headphones and using backlit rainbow keyboard.
    Many factors affect video games’ link to violence
    3/6/19

    Violent games may trigger violent acts in people with a predisposition toward violence, according to new research by a UB education professor.

  • An illustration visualizes dihydrofolate reductase, one of the proteins scientists studied. Different colors indicate the intensity of the protein's motion in different locations.
    Scientists fingerprint proteins using their vibrations
    3/6/19

    Researchers show they can quickly measure a protein’s microscopic movements, opening new possibilities in medical research.

  • Qing Lin in the lab.
    Exploring the science of cellular receptors
    2/28/19

    Chemist Qing Lin has received $2 million from the NIH to create tools to study how pharmaceuticals affect the inner workings of living cells.

  • firefighter pulling a hose over his shoulder.
    Study examines fire protection grant disbursement
    2/26/19

    Some states received more than their fair share in 2014, according to a new model developed by UB engineers, while others were shortchanged.

  • Silhouette of a person sitting bent over in a chair with one hand on his forehead, the other resting on his knee.
    Smartphones aiding understanding of depression, anxiety
    2/25/19

    UB psychologist Kristin Gainey is using the technology to measure symptoms in real time to learn how immediate feelings relate to later symptoms.

  • The image shows how the UB tool works, when applied to histology image data. The large background image shows a mouse renal tissue section with kidney structures called glomeruli marked via automatically estimated boundaries. The boundaries can be iteratively updated during system training. The glomeruli structures change when the disease has progressed.
    Improving medical imaging analysis
    2/20/19

    UB researchers have developed a tool that lets medical professionals “teach” computers to correctly annotate medical images.

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