Posts Tagged Medical Center

Tumor shrinkage is one sign of cancer treatment’s efficacy—but Rochester scientists are exploring elasticity and permeability as well.

Rochester researcher Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez and his colleagues used virtual reality to better understand how anxiety effects the brain in a ‘real-world-like’ environment.

Rochester computer scientist Ehsan Hoque and his colleagues have harnessed machine learning to accurately identify signs of the neurological disease by analyzing facial muscles.

Medical Center researchers have found that mothers with both disease-acquired and mRNA vaccination-acquired immunity to COVID-19 produced breast milk with active SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.

Rochester ophthalmology professor Juliette McGregor is leading a National Eye Institute–funded project to test therapies that regenerate the eye’s retina.

The University will serve as the lead study site in the US for an experimental treatment for CLN5 Batten disease, a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorder.

For nearly 60 years, the University’s Center for Visual Science has been transforming our understanding of vision and how we treat vision disorders.

Rochester economist Elaine Hill traces how redlining from decades ago in Rochester, New York, is associated with worse outcomes in pregnancy and childbirth experienced by Black women today.

Detecting tiny biomarkers circulating in our bodies is problematic and costly. Researchers are developing a cost-effective detection device using nanotechnology.

The University of Rochester Medical Center and Rochester General Hospital are two of only 12 sites nationally that are testing Pfizer and BioNTech’s new mRNA flu vaccine.