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Published: June 30 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — As living organisms, oysters help filter and clean seawater. Now, scientists may be able to broaden that natural cleansing ability by using the bivalves’ shells to rid fresh water of pollutants.
Published: June 30 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — These days the stork barely begins to circle and parents already know whether to stock up on pink or blue. Now a growing number of researchers are pondering whether gene therapy to prevent an array of devastating disorders detectable before birth might someday also be part of the prenatal package.
Published: June 29 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consumer confidence among Floridians in June regained some of its losses from the previous month, driven by a nationwide job market recovery, fewer unemployment claims and a revival in retail sales, University of Florida economists report.
Published: June 24 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A mysterious disease that causes the body's immune system to turn against itself also sends a warning signal to alert doctors of the onset of its worst symptoms, University of Florida physicians have found.
Published: June 23 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It may be no surprise to avid football fans that teams coming from warm climates have a tough time winning in the cold, but new research shows investors might want borrow a page from the same playbook.
Published: June 21 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — There are elaborate hieroglyphs, burial objects and other clues.
Published: June 17 2004
This year’s marked decline in international graduate student applications, largely attributed to the difficulty of obtaining student visas in the wake of Sept. 11, is ironic. If history is any guide, the foreign students we’re losing as a result of the war on terrorism may be the very ones we need to help us win it.
Published: June 17 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — There's more than one way to slim a cat – at least that's the hope of University of Florida obesity researchers, who believe pets and even people may someday benefit from gene therapy research aimed at breaking through the biochemical bottleneck that makes many middle-aged mammals gain weight.
Published: June 15 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — People may be in a hurry to save, but they're slow to take up the offer, a new UF study on mail-in rebates suggests.
Published: June 14 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Carbon nanotubes, tiny cylinders whose extraordinary electrical and mechanical properties have spurred much excitement in recent years, may play an unexpected role in replacing the century-old incandescent light bulb.
Published: June 10 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — They may not have the bite of mosquitoes, but midges – those little insects that form cloud-like swarms- can be a major summer nuisance. They can ruin a car's paint job, contaminate food, cause severe allergic reactions in some people, and even pose hazards on roads and at airports.
Published: June 8 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Unwanted, pulled or poisoned, the lowly weed is sometimes better than its highly touted "herbal" cousins for preventing and curing a host of diseases, according to University of Florida research.
Published: June 5 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Potatoes may be on the no-no list for high-protein diets, but a University of Florida researcher says a new low-carb potato will help win back die-hard carbohydrate counters.
Published: June 1 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data has uncovered evidence the universe experienced far fewer major collisions among galaxies than previously thought.
Published: June 5 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — If you aspire to be young at heart, consider shooting for healthy at heart instead.
Published: June 28 2004
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — One of the world’s most damaging tomato diseases may have met its match, now that University of Florida researchers have found a way to give plants resistance to tomato yellow leaf curl virus.