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    • American Academy of Microbiology has elected Gerald Koudelka into its 2021 Fellowship Class
    • Vincent Lynch publishes a study to show how a gene called HAND2 may impact timing of labor
    • Lindqvist lab uses ancient DNA to trace prehistoric dogs
    • Vincent Lynch publishes a study to show that elephants possess extra copies of genes associated with tumor suppression
    • Krabbenhoft publishes study on variants in rhodopsin gene that impact fish vision
    • Jae W. Lee co-authors research that suggests MLL4 could be a great epigenetic target molecule to treat various symptoms of Kabuki syndrome
    • Two of 2020's top twenty research stories feature the work of our faculty
    • 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
    • Vincent Lynch studies genes of Wrangel Island woolly mammoth
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  • Scientists stunned to discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice
    3/18/21

    The findings add to evidence that the giant ice sheet is highly vulnerable to a warming climate, creating risk of rapid sea-level rise.

  • Helheim Glacier study to focus on the power and mysteries of water
    3/25/21

    A new $2.2 million project will explore how water moves through Helheim Glacier, influencing how fast the glacier sheds ice into the sea.

  • UB researchers detect California variants of the coronavirus in WNY
    3/26/21

    UB researchers have found evidence of the so-called California variants, B.1.427 and B.1.429, in virus samples of Western New Yorkers who tested positive in January.  

  • UB research reveals how the brain inhibits remyelination in MS and how to treat it
    3/26/21

    Two papers by University at Buffalo researchers reveal important new findings as to how regeneration of myelin in multiple sclerosis fails and, potentially, more efficient ways to treat it. 

  • With SUNY funding, UB teams explore technologies to increase pandemic preparedness
    3/29/21

    Projects focus on wastewater surveillance of disease, and automated cloth mask production.

  • A UB chemist’s other tools: A fountain pen, ink and a stylus
    3/31/21

    Timothy Cook moonlights as an artist, with projects binding two passions: science and drawing.

  • ‘Death Is But a Dream’: Partnering to tell stories about the end of life
    4/15/21

    UB professor Carine Mardorossian, a writer and author, has worked with hospice doctor Christopher Kerr on projects that explore end-of-life experiences from the perspective of both patients and caregivers.

  • UB’s Buffalo Institute for Genomics’ partnership spurs growth in Buffalo’s life sciences industry
    4/21/21

    The BIG program was created to leverage and advance life science innovations in thr greater Buffalo area.

  • Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall is erupting. This UB expert helps predict where lava may go
    4/21/21

    Mattia de’ Michieli Vitturi, a geology faculty member and a mathematician, uses computational modeling to help officials in Iceland understand where lava may flow.

  • Study provides detailed look at intriguing property of chiral materials
    4/21/21

    The research focuses on light-matter interactions in chiral materials under a magnetic field.

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