• A distraught person behind bars.
    Mental health affects odds of rearrest
    12/19/24

    Individuals who have a mental illness are more likely to be rearrested while on parole than those without a mental illness, a UB study has found.

  • Henry-Louis Taylor Jr.
    Transforming neighborhoods to improve health outcomes
    12/19/24

    Henry-Louis Taylor Jr. talks about his mission to reverse historic health inequities in the Driven to Discover podcast.

  • Zoom image: UB biologist Trevor Krabbenhoft is using AI to quantify DNA damage in Great Lakes fish, which are key indicators of healthy freshwater environments. The goal is to better understand how environmental stressors like chemical contaminants impact the genetic makeup and health of fish. Here, fish eggs are developing in his lab. Photo: Douglas Levere
    2024: The year of AI at UB
    12/19/24

    UBNow looks back at a year in which UB has been demonstrating its leadership in the burgeoning field that is critical to the future of the state and nation.

  • Cinnamon sticks and ground cinnamon in a measuring spoon.
    Cinnamon, spice and ‘everything nice’
    12/17/24

    Epidemiologst Katarzyna Kordas discusses why lead-tainted cinnamon products have turned up on store shelves, and what questions consumers should ask.

  • Concept of examining small groups of people.
    Investigators embrace community feedback model
    12/17/24

    UB researchers find that feedback from Community Engagement Studio sessions can have a major impact on their studies.

  • Peter Elkin.
    UB expert on FDA panel on AI-enabled medical devices
    12/16/24

    Generative AI-enabled devices in medicine should be thought of not necessarily as tools but as “partners in care,” bioinformatics chair Peter Elkin says.

  • Kaihang Shi.
    UB engineer to use AI, simulation for new nanomaterials
    12/13/24

    Kaihang Shi will use a $110,000 award to create microporous polymers to make natural gas processing more energy-efficient.

  • Brain with paramagnetic rim lesions.
    What PRLs mean for MS progression
    12/13/24

    Two UB studies are the first to longitudinally examine the appearance, disappearance or persistence of these lesions in disease progression in MS.

  • An older adult expresses pain while holding lower back and leaning on a countertop.
    Pain drives rising disability rates among older adults
    12/12/24

    A UB study found that from 2002-18, the number of Americans attributing their disability to chronic pain increased by nearly 10 million people.

  • UB team and community partners pose for a photo in front of a small building in Africa.
    UB team visits community health partners in Africa
    12/11/24

    The trip addressed two public health challenges devastating that part of the continent: HIV and tuberculosis. 

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