• Efferent Labs founder holding up tiny implantable device.
    Tiny device uses body's own cells
    5/26/17

    43North winner Efferent Labs developed an implantable device that scans cells with florescent light to detect changes.

  • Tablet with "HIV" on screen, stethoscope, pills and objects on wooden desktop.
    A Rx for PrEP's success
    5/25/17

    SPHHP's Przybyla received two grants to examine barriers to usage of the HIV drug regimen and a less invasive way to measure adherence.

  • a blue-colored, human white blood cell (WBC) known specifically as a neutrophil, interacting with two pink-colored, rod-shaped, multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria.
    Fighting superbugs with a triple whammy
    5/24/17

    Antibiotic combinations prove effective against two of a sextet of superbugs that cause the majority of U.S. hospital infections.

  • Dave Hostler looking on while a diver wearing a wetsuit crouches in a small pool.
    Studying diving at altitude
    5/23/17

    $875,861 study funded by the Naval Sea Systems Command will have applications for military and commercial diving.

  • Illustration of a heart made of circuits.
    Using the heart to power pacemakers
    5/22/17

    A UB PhD student is working on a new technology that would eliminate the need for batteries to power the units.

  • Gates Vascular Institute/Clinical and Translational Research Center in downtown Buffalo.
    Can a building advance medicine?
    5/18/17

    Putting surgeons and researchers in the same facility is leading to world-class innovations.

  • Conceptual illustration of non-prescription Ritalin use and it's affects on the brain.
    Nonprescription use of Ritalin is examined
    5/17/17

    An RIA study found adverse side effects for those taking the drug but not diagnosed with ADHD.

  • Scanning electron micrograph of the humped bladderwort plant.
    Study unveils prized genetic treasures
    5/17/17

    New research co-led by UB's Victor Albert highlights the genomic underpinnings that help make the carnivorous bladderwort a ferocious hunter.

  • Fluorescence microscopy image of in vitro model of myelin sheath formation by Schwann cells around neuronal axons.
    How does neuropathy happen?
    5/16/17

    New research on myelination by UB scientists reveals a pathway and a possible therapeutic option.

  • Close up of a man putting on a woman's shoe.
    Study offers insights into empathy
    5/12/17

    The idiom that suggests “walking a mile in their shoes” turns out to be problematic advice.

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