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$1.2 million gift helps bring UF Pharmacy campus to new Orlando-based Research and Academic Center

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A retired Orlando community pharmacist who donated $1.2 million to establish a University of Florida College of Pharmacy campus in Orlando will realize his dream Oct. 5 with the groundbreaking of the new UF Research and Academic Center in Lake Nona.

Filed under Health, Research on Thursday, September 30, 2010.

UF researchers find renewable energy leftovers could fertilize, cut carbon emissions

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For hundreds of years, farmers in Brazil’s Amazon Basin have hunted through dense jungles for what is called “terra preta” — mysterious plots of super-fertile black soil amid otherwise nutrient-stripped earth.

Filed under Environment, Research on Thursday, September 30, 2010.

Compound discovered in Florida Keys shows early promise as colon cancer treatment

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A chemical compound made from a type of bacteria discovered in the Florida Keys by a University of Florida pharmacy researcher has shown effectiveness in fighting colon cancer in preclinical experiments.

Filed under Florida, Health, Research on Wednesday, September 29, 2010.

UF study: Wildlife officials may need to restrict hunting to boost quail numbers

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — More hunting restrictions may be needed if wildlife managers are to bring back declining populations of the northern bobwhite quail, a new University of Florida study shows.

Filed under Environment, Florida, Research on Tuesday, September 28, 2010.

Consumer confidence inches up as worst of BP oil spill crisis ends

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The sealing of the BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico put a stop to the hemorrhaging of Florida’s consumer confidence, which rose two points to 68 in September, its highest level since May according to a new University of Florida survey.

Filed under Business, Florida, Research on Tuesday, September 28, 2010.

UF surgeons, particle engineers receive federal grants to research breast cancer treatments

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida surgeon Dr. Stephen Grobmyer and his collaborators in the department of surgery and College of Engineering have been awarded three U.S. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Concept Awards and a research foundation grant totaling nearly $600,000 to develop new ways to deliver treatment to breast cancer patients.

Filed under Engineering, Health, Research on Monday, September 27, 2010.

Study: Florida panther population in better shape than before; still a long way to go

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In 1995, conservation managers made a desperate bid to save the Florida panther from extinction and released eight female pumas imported from Texas in hopes they’d breed with native males.

Filed under Environment, Florida, Research, Sciences on Thursday, September 23, 2010.

New UF study examines patient treatment decisions for colorectal cancer

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida study will take an in-depth look at the factors involved in treatment decisions made by people with colorectal cancer. The study is funded by a $1.2 million grant from the Bankhead-Coley Florida Cancer Research Program, administered through the Florida Department of Health.

Filed under Health, Research on Thursday, September 23, 2010.

The Joy of Sets: For ants and trees, multiple partners are a boon

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In the complex world of ant-plant partnerships, serial monogamy can help trees maximize their evolutionary fitness, a new University of Florida study shows.

Filed under Research, Sciences on Tuesday, September 21, 2010.

UF research finds salmonella responds differently to tomato varieties, ripeness

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have discovered that tomato variety and maturity influence the ways salmonella bacteria respond to the fruit.

Filed under Health, Research on Tuesday, September 21, 2010.