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UF Scientists Use AI To Try to More Accurately Predict Citrus Yield

University of Florida researchers are using artificial intelligence to help citrus growers better forecast their seasonal production. So far, they’ve found in a preliminary study that their technology predicts yields with 98 percent accuracy.

UF Research Provides Insight to Equine Metabolic Syndrome

Equine metabolic syndrome, a common equine condition, often proves difficult for veterinarians to diagnose and treat. Recent UF/IFAS research into genetic factors contributing to the disease provides guidance on how to manage horses so owners can prevent the disease.

Computing Power Is the Key to Analyzing a Changing Environment

Robert Guralnick, the biodiversity informatics curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, says data science approaches, particularly machine learning, can help with the critical challenge of extracting the best data generated by an ever-more-closely monitored environment and using it to save global biodiversity.

AI Future: Why the University of Florida Added 100 AI Faculty and the 22nd Fastest Supercomputer in the World

The University of Florida recently turned on the eighth most powerful supercomputer in higher education and 22nd most powerful supercomputer in the world. And added 100 new AI-focused faculty to the already several hundred who are engaged in AI.

UF/IFAS Researchers Explain Science Behind Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

South Florida residents seeking science-based information about genetically modified mosquitoes can access a new, online resource from University of Florida scientists at the UF/IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory.

Can Handheld DNA Testing Technology Stand Up to Seafood Fraud?

When LeeAnn Applewhite started running DNA analysis on commercial seafood samples in 2015, 75 percent of them – species ranging from grouper and snapper to catfish and shrimp – were mislabeled. “We were testing thousands of samples, and some of it was unintentional mislabeling; it was a bycatch species with [species like] grouper or snapper but the whole load was not erroneously labeled,” said Applewhite, co-founder and president of UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate Applied Food Technologies.

Artificial Intelligence Can Combat Deepfakes, Cybercrimes and Snooping

University of Florida researcher Damon Woodard is using artificial intelligence methods to develop algorithms that can detect deepfakes — images, text, video and audio that purports to be real but isn’t. These algorithms, Woodard says, are better at detecting deepfakes than humans.

FDA Includes UF Researcher As Advisory Board Considers Gene Therapy Risks

FDA's Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee experts prepare for a two-day meeting to talk about high-dose that gene therapy developers and investigators are allowed to give patients in each trial.

Axogen RECON(SM) Clinical Study Completes Subject Follow-Up

UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate Axogen, a global leader in developing and marketing innovative surgical solutions for damage or discontinuity to peripheral nerves, announced that the RECON Clinical Study supporting its Biologics License Application (BLA) for Avance Nerve Graft has completed follow-up of study subjects.

UF Health Neurosurgeon Awarded $38 Million Grant To Lead National Stroke Prevention Trial

The National Institutes of Health awarded a $38 million, five-year grant to Brian Hoh, M.D., M.B.A., the University of Florida’s chair of neurosurgery, to test two new prospective treatments for symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis, a leading cause of ischemic stroke worldwide.

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