UF Health Launches NIH-Sponsored Trial to ‘POuND OUT’ Painful Kidney Stones
Kidney stones can be excruciatingly painful and dangerous, but relief may be on the way. A new University of Florida Health clinical trial will test two existing drugs that may slow the growth of these stones or prevent them from forming.
UF/IFAS Sets Research Publication Records in 2020
Despite the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences reached new highs in the number of studies published, with UF/IFAS research posted in 2,150 publications in 2020.
To Produce More Food, UF Scientists Look To Get More Mileage Out of Plant Enzymes
Enzymes play essential roles in the cells of every living thing, from bacteria to plants to people. Some do their jobs a few times and fizzle out. Others can repeat a task hundreds of thousands of times before they quit.
New AI Tool To Be Tested in NIH-Funded Study To Improve Diagnosis of Parkinson’s and Related Disorders
UF researchers will broadly test a new AI tool aimed at distinguishing the precise diagnosis for patients with early Parkinson’s disease or two related syndromes under a new $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
HLB Control: A New Potential Method
A University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) researcher has found a material that can be used to silence essential genes within Asian citrus psyllids and in the HLB-causing bacterial pathogen that the psyllids spread.
UF Anticancer Drug Receives FDA Clearance for Clinical Trials
An anticancer drug developed by researchers from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy has become the first drug of its kind allowed to proceed to clinical trial by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
StrideBio Announces Closing of $81.5M Series B Financing
StrideBio, Inc., a leading developer of novel engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) based gene therapies, announced the closing of an oversubscribed Series B funding round, which raised $81.5 million.
UF Researchers Use Satellite Images To Help Cattle Ranchers
Two University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers, Chris Wilson, an assistant professor in agronomy, and Hunter Smith, a doctoral student, are creating a new data-interpretation tool using satellite imagery to help ranchers better manage their pastures and grazing.
Field Trials for Cultivar Evaluation; Soil and Root Health
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) citrus researchers are collaborating on ground-breaking research projects to fight against HLB.
Exposing the Shortcuts: Improving Fairness of Artificial Intelligence in the Connected World
At the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, located in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering on the University of Florida campus, My T. Thai, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering and associate director of the Institute, is developing software technologies that can explain how bias can creep into artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.
