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New Web sites make at-home learning convenient for Florida growers

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — One of the most enduring aspects of agriculture is going high-tech.
The field day has been around….well, pretty much forever. At a typical field day, farmers or other interested people have a chance to visit a farm and learn hands-on from extension agents what the latest scientific research has to say about [...]

Filed under Agriculture, Florida, Research on Tuesday, February 10, 2009.

UF study: Rapid burst of flowering plants set stage for other species

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida study based on DNA analysis from living flowering plants shows that the ancestors of most modern trees diversified extremely rapidly 90 million years ago, ultimately leading to the formation of forests that supported similar evolutionary bursts in animals and other plants.

Filed under Environment, Natural History, Research, Sciences on Monday, February 9, 2009.

Near Darwin’s bicentennial, UF researchers help reveal hidden aspect of evolutionary theory

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Although widely speculated, researchers have now shown that the evolution of one species can drive the evolution of another.

Filed under Research, Sciences on Thursday, February 5, 2009.

World’s largest snake shows tropics were hotter in the past

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The largest snake the world has ever known — as long as a school bus and as heavy as a small car — ruled tropical ecosystems only 6 million years after the demise of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex, according to a new discovery published in the journal Nature.

Filed under Environment, Natural History, Research, Sciences on Wednesday, February 4, 2009.

Potential new herpes therapy studied

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new therapy being developed at the University of Florida could, in time, produce another weapon for the fight against herpes.
The gene-targeting approach uses a specially designed RNA enzyme to inhibit strains of the herpes simplex virus. The enzyme disables a gene responsible for producing a protein involved in the maturation and [...]

Filed under Health, Research on Tuesday, February 3, 2009.