Molekule Launches on Amazon, Broadening Consumer Reach and Access to Its Clean Air Technology
UF startup Molekule, the leader in reinventing air purification, announced the availability of its home product line on Amazon. Since launching its first product 2.5 years ago, Molekule has become one of the most-searched-for terms within Amazon’s air purifier category. Available for pre-order immediately, Amazon users now have access to Molekule’s breakthrough Photo Electrochemical Oxidation […]
UF Engineer Testifies Before U.S. House Committee About Election Security
Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor, testified as an expert witness regarding election security during a hearing by the House Administration Committee on Thursday, January 9, 2020. Dr. Gilbert, who has been conducting research on elections for more than 15 years and who was one of two academics asked to testify, […]
UF Health Researchers Develop CMS Quality Measure to Evaluate Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitals
University of Florida Health researchers, in collaboration with the Health Services Advisory Group, have completed a new quality measure for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate care in nearly 1,700 psychiatric hospitals nationwide. The UF measure tracks 30-day hospital readmission rates for psychiatric patients following discharge. UF researchers said it provides a […]
UF Health Shands Talks Ways to Avoid Respiratory Infection in Wake of Coronavirus
The Center for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) announced the second known case of the coronavirus in the US on Friday, January 24. While medical professionals are still unsure about many aspects of this virus, they say that one thing that makes the new coronavirus different is its ability to cause pneumonia as well as […]
Vic Keller Becomes New Optym CEO
UF startup Optym, a privately-held world leader in new-generation optimization software solutions, has appointed Dallas-based Vic Keller as chief executive officer. Ravi Ahuja, Ph.D., founder of Optym and a professor at the University of Florida, has been appointed to chief science officer. For over 20 years, Keller has established, grown and operationally optimized national and […]
Walking Shark Are the Most Recently Evolved Shark on Earth
To some people, a walking shark may be their worst nightmare. Often imagining a 20-foot monster with razor-sharp teeth, they would be baffled to see that the species within Hemiscyllium are small (up to 42 inches or 107 centimeters in total length but average 28 in or 70cm) and that not much is known about […]
UF Neurologist Explains in The Conversation Ozzy Osbourne’s Parkinson’s Disease
University of Florida neurologist, Dr. Michael Okun explains Ozzy Osbourne’s type of Parkinson’s disease, the condition and evolving treatments in The Conversation. For many, hearing the word “Parkinson’s” conjures an image of tremors. But Parkinson’s disease, brought about by the loss of nerve and other brain cells, is actually an incredibly complex movement disorder that […]
Seeking a New Pest Solution, UF Scientists Study Fruit Fly’s Gut Bacteria
In the home, they seem to appear out of nowhere. A piece of fruit is placed on the kitchen counter, and suddenly there’s a fruit fly. But the bug commonly referred to as a fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, may more accurately be called a vinegar fly, with an appetite for rotting fruits. Instead, it’s a […]
University of Florida Health Researchers Find “Switch” That Lets Common, Cancer-Causing Virus Replicate
Many viruses are master manipulators, hijacking cellular functions to propagate, spread and avoid elimination by their hosts’ immune system. Now, University of Florida researcher Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh, M.D., Ph.D., has discovered how the common, cancer-causing Epstein-Barr virus does just that by using a complex of proteins to emerge from a dormant state and begin replicating. The […]
UF Health Researchers on Team Studying Possible Viral Link With Type 1 Diabetes
A prolonged infection by a common virus might sometimes trigger the immune system attack on the pancreas that ultimately leads to Type 1 diabetes. The finding from The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young, or TEDDY, study was recently published in the journal Nature Medicine by a team of scientists that includes Desmond Schatz, […]