Posts categorized Science & Technology

The drug disulfiram, also known as Antabuse, works by blocking a pathway similar to the one that’s hyperactivated in degenerative blindness.

Biologists Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov join colleagues at Brown and NYU in the quest to find potential targets of treatments and therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases.

Petros Tzeferacos, an associate professor of physics and astronomy and a senior scientist at LLE, and colleagues from Chicago and Oxford have replicated in a laboratory setting conditions that exist within galaxy clusters.

This never-before-seen style of collective motion isn’t the only finding that surprised Rochester researchers about the organisms.

Pre-existing immunity to the common cold was thought to protect people from COVID-19. But new evidence suggests that sometimes the opposite can happen.

The professor emerita, known as the ‘mother of infrared astronomy,’ had a profound impact on research into astronomical phenomena and the origins of the universe and was a pioneer for women in science.

An internal funding program, plus the close proximity of the University’s engineering and medical facilities, promotes progress in a potential treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.

Two new awards will help the University of Rochester address a pressing need for highly trained PhD graduates and prepare a more diverse pipeline of optics professionals.

New research has identified the neurons that respond to singing, but not to other types of music. The findings provide insights into how the brain processes different sounds.

Despite recent advances in hearing aid technology, users frequently complain that the devices tend to amplify all the sounds around them. Rochester researcher Jong-Noon Nam believes a key part of the answer to this problem lies inside the cochlea of the inner ear.