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The future of medicine: Insert chip, cure disease?

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Imagine a chip, strategically placed in the brain, that could prevent epileptic seizures or allow someone who has lost a limb to control an artificial arm just by thinking about it.

Filed under Research, Health, Engineering on Tuesday, July 24, 2007.

From UF and IBM, a blueprint for “smart” health care

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Always on, connected, cheap and on sale everywhere.

Filed under Research, Health, Technology, Engineering on Tuesday, July 24, 2007.

World’s largest telescope to make first observations Friday

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The world’s largest telescope will take its first peek into the heavens this week, ushering the University of Florida into the top ranks of the “big observers,” as one astronomy professor put it.

Filed under Research, Engineering, Astronomy on Monday, July 9, 2007.