Category: Research

A gentler way to treat aggressive gum disease

A dental patient smiling while a gloved hand holds a small mirror in their mouth.

New research reveals that the primary bacterium driving gum disease carries an internal “genetic brake” that controls its own aggression.

UF Herbarium celebrates barcode milestone

The U F Herbarium team crowded around and pointing at a saw palmetto specimen laying on a table on a display board.

The UF Herbarium recently marked a major milestone with the accession of its 300,000th vascular plant specimen.

Cranberry juice study seeks participants

Large bottles of Old Orchard cranberry juice lined up for sale.

UF researchers are recruiting adults ages 30–55 for a study on cranberry juice and its impact on stress, mood, cognition and the gut–brain axis.

UF researchers use machine learning to pursue fusion power

Fusing atoms promises an abundant, carbon-free energy source.  But first, researchers must tame ionized gas plasma inside a reactor known as a tokamak.

UF’s journalism school unveils AI bias elimination tool

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The College of Journalism and Communications is preparing to launch Authentically, an AI-powered editing tool designed to eliminate bias in the news.

UF ranks highly in NIH funding

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The UF Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy were recently recognized for their research funding through the National Institutes of Health.

Houston, we have a problem: UF study points to clotting glitch in space

Doctor Abdel Alli leans on a counter in his lab where he and his team are studying how blood-clotting platelets behave in space.

According to a UF Health study led by Abdel Alli, Ph.D., platelets become less effective at clotting after about five days in outer space.

DNA detection tool helps stop spread of invasive species

U F IFAS employee on a small boat to the left, reaching into the water to the right to collect D N A samples.

UF researchers have developed a breakthrough approach to detect invasive fish in the Florida Everglades before they spread.

From physics to farming

U F IFAS animal welfare scientist Emily Miller-Cushon crouching down and petting a calf

UF/IFAS Associate Professor Emily Miller-Cushon, Ph.D., took a path far from agriculture, into physics and math, but looped back in a way that melded her two passions: data and animal welfare.

Distance learning in the wake of COVID-19

A person at a computer with a podcast mic to the left and a camera in the foreground pointing back at them. Large prints of butterflies, eggs and other natural elements cover the wall behind them.

Researchers assess the state of online museum programming three years after the pandemic’s onset to find out what worked and what didn’t.