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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
GatorWings Wins DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that GatorWings, a team of undergraduate students, Ph.D. candidates, and professors from the University of Florida are the winners of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) – a three-year competition to unlock the true potential of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum with artificial intelligence (AI). SC2’s final 10 […]
Neuroimmunology Expert Featured at Neuroscience 2019 Press Conference
Malú Tansey, Ph.D., director of UF’s Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, was among a select group of experts to present during a press conference at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual conference in Chicago. Participants explained their research on gut-brain communication via the immune system that may help in the development of novel treatments […]
UF Researchers Develop First-Ever Protocol for Treating Rare Infection in Dogs
While participating in a summer research project in Thailand in 2018, a University of Florida graduate student and his mentor discovered a rarely diagnosed and often fatal infection, known as melioidosis, in a dog, and helped veterinarians develop a protocol to successfully treat the animal. One year later, the 11-year-old Pomeranian mixed-breed dog continues to […]