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Multimedia: Engineer designs micro-endoscope to seek out early signs of cancer

khowell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:30:18 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Traditional endoscopes provide a peek inside patients’ bodies. Now, a University of Florida engineering researcher is designing ones capable of a full inspection.

Multimedia: Phytochemicals in plant-based foods could help battle obesity, disease

khowell — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:23:05 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The cheeseburger and French fries might look tempting, but eating a serving of broccoli or leafy greens first could help people battle metabolic processes that lead to obesity and heart disease, a new University of Florida study shows.

Multimedia: NSF awards $1.4 million to UF, other institutions to study disease threatening lobsters

khowell — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:13:00 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Caribbean spiny lobster is one of Florida’s top commercial seafood species, with an annual $27 million harvest — but a recently discovered virus is killing the crustaceans and threatening the industry.

Multimedia: UF study: Tai chi can help people with diabetes lower glucose levels

khowell — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:50:41 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A regular tai chi exercise program can help people better control their diabetes and lower glucose levels, according to a University of Florida study.

Multimedia: Establishing healthy shrubs not the water-consuming task many think, UF research shows

khowell — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:10:37 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Good news for your utility bills and the environment: New University of Florida research shows that landscape shrubs need much less water to establish healthy roots than you might expect.

Multimedia: House-infesting brown dog tick becoming resistant to common pesticides, UF experts say

khowell — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:35:48 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It’s bad enough that the Southeast is bedeviled by a tick that doesn’t mind taking up residence inside homes.

Multimedia: New water-depth evaluation system will aid Everglades research, UF study shows

khowell — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:55:06 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When scientists discuss Everglades restoration, one phrase pops up again and again — “getting the water right.”

Multimedia: Study of isolated snakes could help shed light on venom composition

rwayne — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:37:28 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — While studying a way to more safely and effectively collect snake venom, University of Florida researchers have noticed the venom delivered by an isolated population of Florida cottonmouth snakes may be changing in response to their diet.

Multimedia: UF researchers find mechanism behind zinc’s immune-boosting power

rwayne — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:30:14 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Just in time for what federal authorities warn could be an extremely severe flu season, University of Florida research has revealed a fundamental mechanism behind zinc’s immune-boosting power—it ramps up one of the body’s primary lines of defense, white blood cells known as T-cells.

Multimedia: Recession causes Florida’s population to drop for first time since 1946

khowell — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:50:58 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s economic slump has pulled down the state’s population, which declined for the first time since military personnel left the state after the end of World War II, according to the latest preliminary population estimates from the University of Florida.

Multimedia: Vision researchers see unexpected gain a year into blindness trial

khowell — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:00:52 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Scientists have discovered that even in adults born with extremely impaired sight, the brain can rewire itself to recognize sections of the retina that have been restored by gene therapy.

Multimedia: Rude work behavior hurts job performance of observers as well as victims

khowell — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:25:59 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A destructive form of secondhand rudeness has been discovered by a University of Florida study, which concludes that employees who are not the intended targets of abusive workplace remarks still suffer from their effects.

Multimedia: Cold weather may reduce Cuban tree frogs’ impact as they move north, UF researchers say

khowell — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:50:37 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Invasive Cuban tree frogs are spreading through Florida, but a new University of Florida study suggests their impact could weaken as they move farther north, because colder weather seems to reduce their average size.

Multimedia: Astronomers, royalty, rock stars to inaugurate world’s largest telescope

khowell — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:00:25 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four hundred years after Galileo first turned his handmade telescope toward the heavens, the world’s largest, most technologically advanced telescope is set to make its formal debut.

Multimedia: UF researchers turn up the heat on bedbugs with new low-tech treatment method

khowell — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:12 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Bedbug infestations are notoriously hard to eliminate, but University of Florida researchers have developed a low-cost, low-tech method to kill the bloodsucking insects in furniture and bedding, using heat.