Biophysics

City agrees with Marine - vows to change gender mix-up on birth certificate

9 Feb 2012

It's mission accomplished in Operation: Sex-Change. The city is recognizing that tough-as-nails former marine David Hassan, 29, is a male, not a female, and is changing his faulty birth certificate accordingly, The Post has learned. The agreement came less than 24 hours after The Post first reported on Hassan...

Need-to-know news and views for UB faculty and staff

9 Feb 2012

UB Alert: Emergency text, e-mail messages. Sign up > Parkinson’s disease researchers at UB have discovered how mutations in the parkin gene cause the disease, which afflicts at least 500,000 Americans and for which there is no cure.

Young flies smell sweeter

9 Feb 2012

Young fruit flies are sexually more attractive for the other sex / publication in "Journal of Experimental Biology" Old fruit flies are less sexually attractive than their younger counterparts.