Researchers investigate evolving malaria resistance
Funded by a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, scientists at Binghamton University hope to understand how the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum evolved resistance to the once-effective medication chloroquine. Read more
Expert on measuring stress creates guide for researchers
Professor Gary D. James has devoted 25 years to studying stress in humans. Along the way, he has studied Samoans and New Yorkers, figured out how to gather reliable blood pressure readings during everyday situations and collected untold numbers of saliva and urine samples. Read more
Discovery has implications for health care, manufacturing
A Binghamton University biologist's discovery of a molecule that induces the dispersion of biofilms will likely mean a sea change in health care, manufacturing, shipping and pharmaceutics over the coming years. David Davies has found and is in the process of synthesizing a compound that will cause biofilm colonies to disperse, thus leaving individual bacteria up to 1,000 times more susceptible to disinfectants, antibiotics and immune functions. Read more
$120,000 grant to fund hypertension research
Gary James, director of the Institute for Primary and Preventative Health Care and professor in the Decker School of Nursing, has been awarded a two-year, $120,000 research grant by the New York State Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program (ECRIP) to develop a better means of diagnosing hypertension, the leading cause of heart disease, kidney failure and stroke. Read more
