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Published: April 29 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida scientists have discovered that male blood stem cells evolved into male brain cells in three women who underwent bone marrow transplantation to treat cancer.
Published: April 27 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consumer confidence among Floridians remained steady in April, with optimism about buying big-ticket items amid signs of an improving economy balanced by concerns for the long-term health of the U.S. economy, University of Florida economists report.
Published: April 27 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The illusion of smoking can be just as deadly as the real thing for minority inner- city girls who believe their mothers have the habit, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: April 22 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Brothers and sisters who fight while growing up lay the groundwork for battering their dates by the time they get to college, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: April 19 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The comings and goings of children, grandchildren, relatives and "fictive kin" who are close to the family but not related create larger households for elderly blacks compared with their white counterparts, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: April 15 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Inspired by the workings of a tape measure, an engineer says he has found a way to improve the bow used by hunters and warriors since antiquity without radically changing its form.
Published: April 13 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Does your dog know if you’ve had a bad day? Probably, but don’t expect your cat to catch on.
Published: April 10 2004
If you’re keeping score of who’s filling up their campaign coffers the fastest this election season, you’d be wise not to focus your attention on the state parties or the candidates.
Published: April 9 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — They’ve long been a symbol of the wild open spaces of the American West. Now coyotes are making themselves at home in Florida’s suburbs.
Published: April 7 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Trilobites, the primitive shelled creatures considered by many to be among the first animals to appear in the fossil record, may have originated in a place known today largely for its barren lifelessness: Siberia.
Published: April 6 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have used a common gel to successfully deliver gene therapy to the diaphragm muscle of mice with inherited respiratory weaknesses, enabling them to breathe easier.
Published: April 5 2004
In the midst of the recent bombings in Spain, the turmoil in the Middle East, and the weak growth of American jobs, both George W. Bush and John Kerry are paying close attention to a “seemingly” minor issue: Cuba.
Published: April 5 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A tugboat captain guides a 150-foot, 800-ton barge up a bay and points it at a bridge with one goal in mind: to ram it.
Published: April 1 2004
QUINCY, Fla. — Aromatherapy … for watermelons, tomatoes and strawberries?
Published: April 22 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In what is believed to be the first scientific report of equine influenza virus jumping the species barrier, University of Florida veterinary researchers say the virus is the likely cause of a respiratory disease outbreak that killed eight racing greyhounds from kennels in Jacksonville in January.
Published: April 27 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — More than three decades of service to his country gathering intelligence and handling some of the U.S. government’s most sensitive information has given Arthur McMaster a unique perspective on how the world works.
Published: April 14 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Stealth or disguised political organizations with little public accountability are spending large sums of frequently untraceable money to influence the outcomes of referendum elections in many states, largely due to weak or loophole-ridden disclosure laws.
Published: April 21 2004
CAPE SAN BLAS, Fla. — The waters of St. Joseph Bay are a home to a previously unknown feeding ground for endangered green turtles, University of Florida researchers have discovered.