New Study: UF Contributes More Than $16 Billion to the State’s Economy
The University of Florida and related entities contributed $16.91 billion to the state’s economy in fiscal year 2017-2018, according to a newly released study on UF’s economic contributions. These activities contributed $10.4 billion, or 1.1%, to the Gross State Product of Florida and supported 134,609 full- and part-time jobs, which amounts to 1.1% of the […]
Dopamine Signaling Examination Method Promises New Insights
In a new study of human blood samples, a neuroscience research team led by Habibeh Khoshbouei, Ph.D., Pharm.D., an associate professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at UF’s College of Medicine, and graduate research assistant Adithya Gopinath demonstrated a novel approach to examine markers of dopamine signaling in peripheral immune cells. The study, published in the […]
UF Health Researchers Launch Trial Involving Gut Bacteria’s Role in Type 1 Diabetes
Graciela Lorca, Ph.D., was part of a University of Florida Health research team that discovered about a decade ago that something was amiss in the guts of diabetic rats. Their intestinal tracts, which like humans are teaming with billions of microorganisms that aid digestion, had fewer numbers of a particular probiotic compared with the guts […]
UF/IFAS Leads Multistate Research to Reduce Pepper Diseases; Boost Production
Peppers are popular. Consumers eat all kinds, including jalapenos, habaneros, chilis and more. Because people eat so much of the fruit, they’re worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year to Florida and national economies. In fact, in 2018, bell and chili peppers alone were a $181 million-a-year industry in Florida and a $628 million […]
UF Listed Among the World’s Most Innovative Universities
The World’s Most Innovative Universities is a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries. The University of Florida ranked No. 92 as a result of the number of patents filed and granted between 2012 and 2017. An example of […]
An Ultrathin Nanoelectromechanical Transducer Made of Hafnium Zirconium Oxide
In a study published in Nature Electronics, researchers at the University of Florida were able to fabricate an ultrathin nanoelectromechanical transducer using 10-nm-thick ferroelectric hafnium zirconium oxide (Hf0.5Zr0.5O2) films. The team includes two senior researchers, Roozbeh Tabrizian and Toshikazu Nishida, as well as students Mayur Ghatge and Glenn Walters. “Our research has followed the long-standing […]
First Magnet Installed for the ALPS II Experiment at DESY
The international ALPS II (Any Light Particle Search) collaboration installed the first of 24 superconducting magnets, marking the start of the installation of a unique particle physics experiment to look for dark matter. Located at the German research center DESY in Hamburg, it is set to start taking data in 2021 by looking for dark […]
Age of Woman’s First Menstruation May Signal Higher Risk of Heart Disease, UF Health Research Finds
It might seem like an irrelevant question for a cardiologist to ask a female patient, but University of Florida Health researcher Carl J. Pepine, M.D., hopes it will one day become as routine as asking someone if they smoke or have high blood pressure. Women who experienced their first menstruation at an early or late […]
Specnova Chooses Ashland to Distribute Tart Cherry Extract in the US
Ashland, a global leader in providing specialty chemical solutions to customers in a wide range of consumer and industrial markets, has signed an exclusive agreement with UF Innovate | The Hub resident client Specnova, a natural ingredients biotechnology company, that gives Ashland exclusive rights to distribute NordicCherry tart cherry extract in the US. NordicCherry extract […]
Scientists Sequence 1,100 Plants, Illuminating 1 Billion Years of Evolution
Plants are evolutionary champions, dominating Earth’s ecosystems for more than a billion years and making the planet habitable for countless other life forms, including us. Now, scientists have completed a nine-year genetic quest to shine a light on the long, complex history of land plants and green algae, revealing the plot twists and furious pace […]