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    • Gokcumen’s research traces the source of salivary proteins
    • Medler challenges conventional notions of how taste works
    • Gunawardena's research devoted to understanding HTT’s role in cell biology and health
    • Why do scientists use baker’s yeast in the lab?
    • Victor Albert studies tandem gene duplication in Gardenia jasminoides
    • Hoekstra's bees are happy
    • Nicole Wong wins UB Graduate School’s Excellence in Teaching Award
    • Yuna’s world, and the world of FOXG1 research
    • Krabbenhoft co-curates the Fish and Climate Change Database (FiCli)
    • PLOS Genetics publishes research by Vincent Lynch
    • Biological Sciences majors win 2020 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence
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  • The problem with doctor rating websites
    1/11/21

    Online rating sites for doctors are growing in popularity and influence, but the accuracy of information they contain can be lacking.

  • Study: New insights on the role of the MLL4 gene in Kabuki syndrome
    1/11/21

    Research suggests that MLL4 controls production of neurons vital to growth.

  • Goyal appointed to the National Materials and Manufacturing Board
    1/11/21

    The board provides objective, independent assessments of materials and manufacturing research.

  • UB statement on South Campus serving as vaccination site
    1/11/21

    Additional information about the South Campus vaccination site, including a specific building location and hours of operation, will be provided at a later date.

  • 2020 was a milestone year for the Black Lives Matter movement. What’s ahead for 2021?
    1/13/21

    Black Lives Matter has become solidified in the American psyche, but plenty more work needs to be done in 2021, two UB experts say.

  • Discovery of a new form of a brain protein has clinical implications
    1/13/21

    A new study has revealed that the absence of a single interaction within a brain receptor reduces its activity. The discovery advances the understanding of how certain brain diseases arise, and could lead to developing precision medicines for treating them.

  • UB to offer Indigenous health disparities course this spring
    1/15/21

    Public health course will explore the social determinants of health, intergenerational trauma, health equity, and racism and health.

  • U.S. schools receive a C in whole child development in reimagined Nation’s Report Card
    1/15/21

    If the Nation’s Report Card, widely considered the benchmark tool to measure U.S. student achievement, was reimagined to include physical and emotional health in addition to academics, the U.S. would receive a C average.

  • Michael Glick receives 2020 Distinguished Dental Editor Award
    1/15/21

    Michael Glick, professor of oral diagnostic sciences in the UB School of Dental Medicine, received the 2020 Distinguished Dental Editor Award from the American Association of Dental Editors & Journalists and the American Dental Association.

  • New computational method detects disrupted pathways in cancer
    1/19/21

    Researchers have developed a statistically powerful method that can more effectively detect key functional pathways in cancer using genomics data generated by next-generation sequencing technology.

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