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An influenza virus attacks a respiratory tract cell
Science & Technology
November 17, 2016 | 01:03 pm

‘Antisense’ compounds offer new weapon against influenza A

Challenging a long-held convention, University researchers have shown they can inhibit the influenza A virus by targeting its genomic RNA with “antisense” compounds.

topics: Department of Chemistry, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, influenza, Medical Center, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
illustration of chart going up, with image from famous 1964 Daisy ad
Society & Culture
November 3, 2016 | 11:49 am

When campaign ads go low, it often works

“Negative campaigning has been around as long as campaigning,” says Simon Business School professor Mitchell Lovett. “It stays around because it works.”

topics: elections, politics, research finding, Simon Business School,
color and gray imaging from ultrasound
Science & Technology
October 27, 2016 | 11:18 am

Breakthrough adds new color to ultrasound

Rochester engineering professor Kevin Parker has devised a way to differentiate fine details in medical ultrasound images that currently appear as indistinguishable objects in shades of gray.

topics: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Kevin Parker, research finding,
chemical structures
Science & Technology
October 14, 2016 | 04:44 pm

Finding needles in chemical haystacks

Chemists have developed a process for identifying new catalysts that will help synthesize drugs more efficiently and more cheaply, by searching libraries for drugs with structure features similar to known catalysts.

topics: Department of Chemistry, drug treatments, Natural Sciences, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
shovel in sand
Science & Technology
September 29, 2016 | 04:01 pm

‘No more magic’ in predicting how objects move through sand, other terrain

Rochester engineers have developed a simple theoretical model to calculate the force needed to move a rover across the ocean floor or through the granular terrain of other planets, for example, without having to run experiments to test those materials.

topics: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Materials Science Program, research finding,
detector array
Science & Technology
August 30, 2016 | 10:09 am

Why neutrinos ‘matter’ in the early universe

When the highly anticipated findings from the Japan-based T2K neutrino experiment were finally presented at the International Conference on High Energy Physics this month, it was Rochester graduate student Konosuke (Ko) Iwamoto who updated the physics world on the puzzle behind the imbalance between matter and antimatter.

topics: Department of Physics and Astronomy, global engagement, Kevin McFarland, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
illustration of colored areas of the brain showing increased bairn activity
Science & Technology
August 12, 2016 | 12:53 pm

This is your brain on sentences

What does the meaning of a word look like? Researchers have, for the first time, decoded and predicted the brain activity patterns of word meanings within sentences, and successfully predicted what the brain patterns would be for new sentences.

topics: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, featured-post, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
two researchers in lab
Science & Technology
August 11, 2016 | 02:47 pm

‘Optical spring’ enables detection of single molecules

Using the spring force produced by light circulating in a miniaturized resonator, a team of engineering researchers from the University of Rochester and the University of Victoria has discovered a new approach to detecting single particles.

topics: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, research finding,
Science & Technology
August 3, 2016 | 03:54 pm

Fate of marine carbon confirms importance of polar oceans

A new study shows that the polar seas are much better than other regions of the ocean at trapping carbon from marine plankton.

topics: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Thomas Weber,
painting of a family in the mid-19th century around a dinner table
The Arts
July 22, 2016 | 10:23 am

In Goethe’s novel families, love is all that matters

Susan Gustafson’s recently published book examines Johann Goethe’s depiction of family in his literary works, which were cutting-edge compared to the actual state of marriage and family in early 19th-century Germany.

topics: book authors, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, humanities, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,