Category: Research

Scientists create synthetic mucus to fight IBD

Synthetic mucuc being stretched between two fingers in front of a face that is out of focus in the background.

Luiz Roesch, Ph.D., and Brent Sumerlin, Ph.D., have created an artificial mucus that could prevent problems related to bowel inflammation.

Research-backed toolkit tackles childhood food insecurity

Amy Mobley, Ph.D., is leading a five-year program to improve access to nutritious foods for families with young children in Alachua and Leon counties.

UF EPI expert breaks down brain-colonizing fungus

Luis R. Martinez, Ph.D., addresses key questions surrounding cryptococcus neoformans, the leading cause of fungal meningitis.

Chasing the rare arogos skipper butterfly

A Florida Museum researcher walking through a field of rayless sunflowers and tall grass with a large butterfly net over one shoulder.

Florida Museum researchers hope to gather data that will guide conservation efforts and support future protections for the species.

How location — and thoughts on death — shape travel choices

A silhouette of a person holding onto a suitcase and looking out a floor-to-ceiling window at a silhouette of a plane flying in the background.

UF HHP researchers found that people’s responses to thoughts of their own mortality — and the travel decisions that follow — vary depending on where they live.

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.

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