OPEN FOR BUSINESS. Paul Zarembka, professor emeritus of economics, chats with Geri Hens of Hens Honey Bee Farm, one of only a few organic and wild vegetation hives in the area, on June 30 at the opening of a new farmer's market on the UB South Campus. The University Community Farmers Market will operate every Saturday -- rain or shine -- from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. until Oct. 13. (Photo: Nancy J. Parisi)
Engineered blood vessels function like native tissue. Blood vessels that have been tissue-engineered from bone marrow adult stem cells may in the future serve as a patient's own source of new blood vessels following a coronary bypass, according to new research from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
Psychiatry residents triumph in 'MindGames.' A three-person team from UB's psychiatry residency program has won the first "Jeopardy"-inspired "MindGames" at the 2007 meeting of the American Psychiatry Association.
New study examines how dietary iron is used by cells. A four-year study on iron metabolism within cells, an essential process that impacts both iron deficiency and iron toxicity is under way at UB, funded by a $1.16 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Chemists publish major discovery of how enzymes work. In a publication selected as the "2007 Hot Article" by the journal Biochemistry, UB chemists report the discovery of a central mechanism responsible for the action of the powerful biological catalysts known as enzymes.
The legal and ethical fallout of Love Canal. A UB law professor spoke out last week about the legal and ethical fallout of Love Canal and the concentration of hazardous waste disposal sites in Buffalo-Niagara as a result of the region's historical connection to the Manhattan Project.