TAO Connect Announces Launch of V3 Platform Equipped With AI Chatbot for a Personalized Digital Mental Health Experience
UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub graduate TAO Connect, a digital platform designed to make behavioral health therapy more accessible and effective, announced the launch of the TAO Connect V3 platform. The new platform creates a more all-encompassing and interactive approach to online therapy and introduces the TAO Assistant, an AI chatbot that […]
Trio of Medications Showing Early Promise Against Coronavirus, UF Health Researchers Find
The race to find effective treatments for COVID-19 isn’t just about developing new drugs. University of Florida Health scientists are studying a trio of existing medications known to have broad antiviral activity. Two drugs have shown promising results in suppressing the Sars-CoV-2 virus in initial tests on human colon and lung cells that were infected […]
INOVIO Adds Thermo Fisher Scientific To Global Manufacturing Consortium
Inovio, a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect people from infectious diseases and cancer, announced that Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has signed a letter of intent to manufacture INOVIO’s DNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate INO-4800. Thermo Fisher Scientific will join existing partners […]
COVID-19 Not Likely to Trigger Type 1 Diabetes, UF Health Researchers Find in Joint Study
A protein thought to be the novel coronavirus’ entryway into the body could not be detected in the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas in three dozen individuals, the strongest evidence yet that COVID-19 is unlikely to trigger or worsen Type 1 diabetes, according to a new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers. The study, […]
UF Researchers Find Viable Viruses in Aerosols That Cause COVID-19
New research from the University of Florida provides strong evidence that aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may be possible. Prior to these findings, which are in pre-print and have not undergone peer review, the virus had been detected in aerosols, but there was a lack of direct evidence that the particles […]
Oragenics Signs Process Development and Manufacturing Agreement With Avid Bioservices for Coronavirus Vaccine
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate company Oragenics, Inc., and Avid Bioservices, Inc., announced that they have entered into a process development and drug substance manufacturing agreement. Under terms of the agreement, Avid will provide Oragenics with analytical method development, process development and drug substance manufacturing services to support the development of Oragenics’ novel […]
Ology Bioservices Wins $106M Army Contract for COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Support
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Ology Bioservices Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), was awarded a $106,300,002 firm-fixed-price contract to reserve production capacity of approximately 186,840,000 doses to satisfy an urgent need for domestic aseptic fill and finish manufacturing of critical vaccines and therapeutics in support of […]
Nvidia Built Its Selene Supercomputer for Coronavirus Research in Just Three Weeks
Nvidia Corp., an artificial intelligence company co-founded by UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering alumnus Chris Malachowsky, managed to build Selene, the world’s seventh-fastest supercomputer, in just under three weeks. Selene is based on the DGX A100 systems also used by the Argonne National Laboratory to research ways to stop the coronavirus. The Selene supercomputer has been deployed to tackle […]
Dietary Nitrate Can Help Improve Condition of COVID-19 Patients
As part of the high-risk groups, most elderly patients that contract coronavirus are placed in intensive care with a ventilation machine. A new study from the University of Florida revealed that dietary nitrate supplementation could potentially improve diaphragm function. Several studies have revealed that dietary nitrate can enhance physical performance by increasing blood flow and improving […]
‘A Smoking Gun’: Infectious Coronavirus Retrieved From Hospital Air
Skeptics of the notion that the coronavirus spreads through the air — including many expert advisers to the World Health Organization — have held out for one missing piece of evidence: proof that floating respiratory droplets called aerosols contain live virus and not just fragments of genetic material. Now a team of virologists and aerosol […]