Research

A new study in NEJM shows that nursing homes that conducted staff surveillance testing more regularly experienced significantly lower rates of COVID infections and deaths.

PFAS are potentially harmful chemicals found in common, everyday products and drinking water. Researchers at URMC study the impacts PFAS have on our health and share what they know.

An international team of neurologists makes the case that the chemical trichloroethylene (TCE), a common pollutant found in contaminated sites, is driving the global growth in Parkinson’s.

Researchers in the UR Center for RNA Biology discovered a new way to suppress mutations that lead to a wide range of genetic disorders, such as cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and many forms of ...

The cells that make up the human brain begin developing long before the physical shape of the brain has formed. This early organizing of a network of cells plays a major role in brain health ...

Researchers are finding the process in our brain that allows us to see these visual distinctions may not be happening the same way in the brains of children with autism spectrum disorder. They may be ...

Polypharmacy is a buzz word for the use of multiple medications. A Wilmot Cancer Institute study shows it can have serious consequences for older adults with cancer.

Involuntary, fixational eye movements play a bigger role in vision than researchers previously thought.

The founding director of the Center for RNA Biology at the University of Rochester received the award for her discovery of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) in humans.

UR Medicine opens the region's first ambulatory surgery center dedicated to orthopaedic procedures, part of a multi-year, $227 million project to build one of the nation's largest campuses for ...