An article in Industrial Engineer magazine by associate professor Jun Zhuang and undergraduate student Laura Devine describes how game theory can be used to model and improve decision-making in disaster situations.
Several media outlets, including Fox News and Futurity, report that a UB research team led by Blaine Pfeifer has manipulated E. coli to produce 40 new versions of the antibiotic erythromycin.
An article in Futurity reports on a metamaterial hyperlens developed by Natalia Litchinitser, professor of electrical engineering, and a team of UB researchers, that will allow scientists for the first time to see images byond the diffraction limit.
An article on Futurity reports researchers at UB have discovered a way to easily and effectively fasten proteins to nanoparticles, a model that has shown promise for developing an HIV vaccine and as a way to target cancer cells. The article quotes Jonathan Lovell, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
