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.
This Supercomputer Is a Game-Changer for Researchers
The University of Florida is home to one of the world’s fastest supercomputers. It’s called HiPerGator and in this episode of From Florida, Erik Deumens explains how its speed and capacity are making a difference in what researchers are able to do.
Apps Show Promise To Help Heavy Drinkers Age 21–25 Cut Back
A smartphone breathalyzer and blood-alcohol estimator reduced drinking — even though participants weren’t trying to drink less.
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.
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.
Discovery of Dual-Degrading Compound Could Pave Way for More Effective Cancer Drugs
University of Florida researchers have developed a new compound that simultaneously attacks two key proteins critical for a cancer cell’s survival, a discovery that could aid in the development of more effective leukemia, lung and colon cancer drugs.
UFDI Medical Director Recipient of Prestigious JDRF George Eisenbarth Award
Desmond Schatz, M.D., professor and interim chair of the Department of Pediatrics, and Pediatric Medical Director of the University of Florida Diabetes Institute, has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2021 JDRF George Eisenbarth Award for Type 1 Diabetes Prevention.
Meditation Brings Robust Immune System Activation, UF Health Researchers Find
Eight days of intense meditation causes robust activation of the immune system, University of Florida researchers and their colleagues have found.
