Ag Engineer Develops Smart-Spray Technology To Help Reduce Fertilizer, Pesticides
Yiannis Ampatzidis is engaging artificial intelligence to develop a low-cost, smart tree-crop sprayer that can automatically detect citrus trees, calculate their height and leaf density and count fruit.
RTI Surgical Announces Spin Off of Businesses into Two Independent Companies
UF startup RTI Surgical, a global private label OEM company, announced that the company will spin off its Metals business, creating two independent companies that are focused on the needs of customers and patients in their distinct market segments.
UF Health Research To Create Cancer Vaccine Gets $2.5M in New Funding
The Pediatric Cancer Foundation’s Cure-Search for Children’s Cancer is funding UF's Dr. Elias Sayour’s efforts to create a novel vaccine to treat brain cancer in children.
Clinicians May Now Be Able To Tell COVID-19 From Seasonal Flu With Fast Turnaround Thanks to UF Research
Led by Dr. Z. Hugh Fan, Ph.D., professor at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Dr. John Lednicky, Research Professor at the College of Public Health and Health Professions’ Department of Environmental and Global Health, an interdisciplinary team at the University of Florida has developed a game-changing diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2 that is fast, reliable, low-cost and capable of differentiating between COVID-19 and influenza.
New and Upcoming Developments in Glaucoma Treatment
Glaucoma specialist, Dr. Amy Mehta, discusses new and upcoming developments in glaucoma treatment, including an advance by UF startup and UF Innovate | Accelerate at Sid Martin Biotech company TearClear.
UF Health Study Suggests Association Between COVID-19 and Erectile Dysfunction
If the threat of death or severe disability isn’t enough to convince someone to get a COVID-19 vaccination, men can add this possible consequence of coronavirus infection — erectile dysfunction.
Jaw-Dropping Recovery: UF Veterinarians Save Injured Dairy Calf Using Creative 3D Solution
Thanks to a creative solution devised by University of Florida veterinarians using 3D printing technology, a newborn calf that sustained a broken lower jaw soon after birth at the UF dairy farm in Hague has fully recovered and is now an 11-month-old growing heifer in the herd.
Oragenics Announces Positive COVID-19 Challenge Study Results Evaluating Multiple Formulations of its SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Candidate
UF startup and Sid Martin Biotech alumni company Oragenics, Inc. announced the results from its study to evaluate the immunogenicity and viral load reduction impact of its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate in a hamster challenge study. The study provided preclinical data for formulations designed for both intranasal and intramuscular administration.
Taking Cancer Research Out of the Culture Dish and Into 3-Dimensions
After decades of research, cancer is still the leading cause of death in the United States. Up to this point, cancer study has remained almost exclusively within the 2D bounds of traditional cell culture plates. Dr. Gregory Sawyer, professor and distinguished teaching scholar in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is revolutionizing cancer research.
Skip the Line for Safer Voting, Vaccinations, or Other Activities with inLine Ticketing
One socially-minded researcher at UF decided to do something to keep poll workers and voters safer while casting their ballots. Dr. Juan Gilbert, The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), saw the potential danger of standing in line to vote during the election and was inspired to create the inLine Ticketing system.
