Building Digital Twin Tools To Investigate Environmental Threats to Health
A UF research team is developing Florida’s Digital Twin, a digital replica of Florida that can model the effects of natural disasters and future health threats, to understand the complexity of how environmental factors affect human health, with a grant from the NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
UF Scientists Use AI Algorithm To Improve Strawberry Disease Detection
Won Suk “Daniel” Lee and Natalia Peres show how artificial intelligence (AI) can improve strawberry disease detection with a a system taking photos of a reference plate to water more directly than the current method.
NCI Grant Supports UF Health Cancer Center Epigenetics Research
Richard Bennett, Ph.D., a research associate professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the UF College of Medicine, has received a prestigious five-year, $850,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support research investigating epigenetic mechanisms of cancer.
How Our Brains Learn New Athletic Skills Fast
According to a study from the University of Florida biomechanical researchers, the quick, athletic learners among us are built differently – inside their brains.
Beer in Space: UF Researchers Study Microgravity’s Effect on Fermentation
A recently published study by University of Florida researchers provides insight into how beer yeast might behave when fermented in outer space.
Synthetic “Alien” DNA Provides Opportunities for Disease Diagnostics and Treatment
To help understand how DNA may have evolved on other planets, UF researcher Dr. Steven Benner and his partners synthesized DNA-like molecular systems with more than four nucleotides in the laboratory.
New $7.7 Million Grant To Propel Search for Drugs for Rare Brain Disorder
Rumbaugh and a team of scientists from the institute have been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health worth $7.7 million to work toward a treatment. Their goal is to create a pill that restores healthy SYNGAP1 gene production, thereby boosting neuroplasticity, or the ability of the brain to form circuits and connections.
Grant Funds University of Florida Research for Potential Opioid Relief
The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $650,000 grant to a UF/IFAS researcher to study a plant that could help mitigate the opioid epidemic, a national health crisis responsible for more than 130 deaths each day.
UF-Developed Genetic Score Improves Outcomes by Personalizing Leukemia Therapy
Using patients’ own genetics to tailor their chemotherapy regimens appears to improve outcomes in children with acute myeloid leukemia, a pediatric cancer for which treatment has gone unchanged for 50 years, a new University of Florida Health-led study shows.
New Video Test for Parkinson’s Uses AI to Track How the Disease Is Progressing
A video-processing technique developed at the University of Florida that uses artificial intelligence will help neurologists better track the progression of Parkinson’s disease in patients, ultimately enhancing their care and quality of life.
