University of Florida News

SANFORD — A University of Florida researcher plans to trick swarming cousins of the mosquito into becoming kamikazes.

GAINESVILLE — Florida’s consumer confidence registered its largest monthly gain in the past five years in January, reflecting a post-holiday optimism far beyond expectations, University of Florida economists report.

GAINESVILLE — Say polyester and most people conjure up images of flashy leisure suits and trendy discos from the 70s. The truth is, polyester has other applications that are valuable in today’s society, and research designed to educate graduate students in chemistry at the University of Florida could one day be used to make polyester at half the current cost.

GAINESVILLE—A unique virus genetically related to human herpes viruses could be linked to a serious tumor epidemic threatening the survival of endangered sea turtles worldwide, according to a team of researchers at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine and the Marathon-based Turtle Hospital who first identified it.

GAINESVILLE — One plant’s poison may be another plant’s fertilizer. University of Florida researchers reached that conclusion about a new lettuce variety that they genetically engineered.

GAINESVILLE—To catch the latest development in in vitro fertilization, steer your attention to the cattle pen. That sound you hear might be test tubes clinking.

GAINESVILLE—With a few taps on a computer keyboard, University of Florida scientists today booted up the Florida Automated Weather Network (FAWN), a new agricultural weather data information service that will help warn the state’s $7 billion fruit and vegetable industry about devastating freezes.

GAINESVILLE — A software building block to help put virtual products on the World Wide Web, where they will look and behave like the real thing, is being released later this month by a team of University of Florida researchers.

GAINESVILLE — Lesbian couples face the same problems of domestic violence and unequal division of household chores that married heterosexual women do in their relationships, a new University of Florida study finds.

GAINESVILLE—Researchers at Harvard University and the University of Florida have identified a component of the human immune system that appears to prevent diabetes in a group of people considered highly likely to contract the disease.