University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have discovered that loss of muscle stem cells is the main driving force behind muscle decline in old age in mice. Their finding challenges the current prevailing theory that age-related muscle decline is primarily caused by loss of motor neurons.  Take a closer look.

New lung "organoids"-tiny 3-D structures that mimic features of a full-sized lung-have been created from human pluripotent stem cells by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). The team used the organoids to generate models of human lung diseases in a lab dish, which could be used to advance our understanding of a variety of respiratory diseases.  Take a closer look.

Researchers from the University of Rochester's Center for RNA Biology  have identified a new way to potentially slow the fast-growing cells that characterize all types of cancer. The findings  were made in kidney and cervical cancer cells in the laboratory. Take a closer look.

A technique developed by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators can detect cancer cells surviving therapy in the most common form of leukemia in adults more sensitively and precisely than traditional microscopic observation.  Take a closer look.

An interdisciplinary collaboration including 45 researchers has discovered a new class of drug candidates that activates the tumor suppressor protein PP2A. These new compounds have been shown to inhibit the growth of lung cancer tumors in mice, and have implications for a broad array of intractable cancers as well as neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.  Take a closer look.

Researchers have discovered a mechanism by which the body's immune reaction to viruses like influenza and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may cause learning and memory problems.  Take a closer look.

"Unless you've been there," observes Vito Randazzo, "you'll never understand the pain of mental illness." Vito suffered from nearly unendurable depression for more than a decade. But a new kind of neurosurgery has given him a reprieve.  Take a closer look.

Diabetic neuropathy is one of the most common complications of diabetes. While not life-threatening, it affects millions in the U.S. and elsewhere, and leads to limb amputations if left unchecked.   Take a closer look.

After years of anecdotal claims about its benefits, the cannabis derivative cannabidiol reduced seizure frequency 39 percent for patients with Dravet syndrome-a rare, severe form of epilepsy-in the first large-scale, randomized clinical trial for the compound.  Take a closer look.

After analyzing the blood of a survivor of the 2013-16 Ebola outbreak, a team of scientists from academia, industry and the government has discovered the first natural human antibodies that can neutralize and protect animals against all three major disease-causing ebolaviruses.  Take a closer look.

Researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center's School of Public Health  have determined that two stressful work characteristics, low job control and "job strain" - that is, high-demand, low-control work -  have been increasing in the U.S. since 2002.  Take a closer look.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Rockefeller University, and The City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY), a $7.5 million grant for the Center for AIDS Research focused on preventing HIV transmission and ending the AIDS epidemic.  Take a closer look.

The grant will enable New York Medical College to develop an understanding of how mitochondrial oxidant mechanisms promoted by various metabolic and hypertension-associated vascular diseases potentially disrupt the biosynthesis of heme by ferrochelatase and impair heme-dependent regulation of a vasodilator mechanisms controlled by cyclic GMP generation by guanylate cyclase.

Citing the significant harm that would be imposed on their institutions and on the nation's research endeavors, Satish K. Tripathi, president of the University at Buffalo, and Candace Johnson, president and CEO of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, strongly urged members of the Western New York congressional delegation to resist a Trump administration budget proposal to cap federal spending on costs essential to conducting research.  Take a closer look.

NYIT researcher In Newsday:  Scientific research is a critical national investment, providing strong economic and societal benefits along with new knowledge that helps us all.  Scientific discoveries in my area of expertise, microbial pathogenesis, allow us to prevent and combat rare illnesses like Legionnaires' disease or prevalent infectious ailments like Lyme disease that affect New Yorkers far and wide. Take a closer look.

The Department of Family and Community Medicine hosted its Fifth Annual Research Day on May 10 in the Skyline dining room to showcase the research of students, residents and faculty. Sonia A. Velez, M.D., J.D., assistant professor of family and community medicine and interim chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, welcomed the audience, noting the increasing focus on research in family medicine and prevention and population health across the nation.