• Video still featuring a yellow robot dog.
    Robot dog adds to UB’s collection of cool gadgets
    10/12/22

    All fun aside, the new gizmo has serious research implications for AI, computer science and more.

  • Bottle of spilled pills, glass of alcohol on a table.
    Opioids, tranquilizers still often prescribed for alcohol use disorder in NY
    10/12/22

    The prescribing rates remain high, despite efforts to curb the practice, a UB-led study has found.

  • A hand reaching towads a 3D model of molecules.
    Explaining Nobel Prize-winning chemistry techniques
    10/11/22

    UB chemistry PhD candidate Heyang "Peter" Zhang discusses how the techniques used by the 2022 recipients are transforming the field.

  • Three seniors pictured with a chart showing the increase in senior scam victims and financial losses.
    Helping older adults spot online scams, disinformation
    10/7/22

    The NSF-funded project aims to reduce online fraud among older adults, who lose billions of dollars each year.

  • Concept of climate change affecting reproductive health.
    How climate change is likely to worsen reproductive health for generations
    10/6/22

    New research cautions people to think beyond the immediate goal of a healthy infant in your arms.

  • View of the northern lights at the campsite.
    UB scientists spend five days on Helheim Glacier
    10/5/22

    Despite fog, wind and scarce resources, the research expedition succeeded in collecting valuable data.

  • Illustration of students and a teacher during a lockdown drill.
    UB professor assesses lockdown drills in new book
    10/5/22

    Amanda Nickerson examines the effectiveness of these drills and how they impact children's preparedness, anxiety and sense of safety.

  • A jagged line shows the path of HTT and Rab7 proteins moving along a neuronal highway called an axon.
    Probing Huntington’s disease protein’s function
    9/30/22

    In injured neurons, the huntingtin protein may travel together with important signaling molecules, researchers find.

  • Steven Lipshultz.
    Study validates MBS for adolescents
    9/30/22

    The paper co-authored by UB faculty member Steven Lipshultz found metabolic and bariatric surgery a safe and effective treatment option in cases of severe obesity.

  • Team members on the study published in Science Advances. Back row, from left: PhD student Qi Yang (first author); PhD student Thomas A. Hughes; UB Distinguished Professor Sriram Neelamegham; and PhD student Ryoma Hombu. Front: research scientist Anju Kelkar.
    Molecules called glycans regulate COVID-19 spike protein function
    9/29/22

    New UB research highlights the role of molecules called N-glycans in SARS-CoV-2 infectivity — and as potential drug targets.

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