For the past 12 years, University of Florida researchers at the Powell Gene Therapy Center have pioneered gene therapies aimed at helping patients with inherited blindness and paralyzing neuromuscular diseases. With many of these therapies finally about to cross over from the laboratory to mainstream medicine, the Powell Center’s original benefactors, Earl and Christy Powell, [...]

Researchers at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine say proteins common to multiple strains of Anaplasma marginale, a tick-borne pathogen that costs the U.S. cattle industry millions of dollars annually and is even more devastating in developing countries, could hold the key to developing an effective vaccine against the disease. In the July [...]

An international team of researchers led by the University of Florida has created a new way to analyze the spread of dangerous viruses, according to a study published online today in Nature Communications. The method uses sets of mathematical rules to do something software cannot easily accomplish — analyze subtle DNA differences to more fully [...]

Tooth discoloration is, understandably, a concern and a research area for dentists. But grapefruit discoloration? Ever since her recent move into the Emerging Pathogens Institute, Ozlem Yilmaz, D.D.S., Ph.D., a dentist and associate professor in the College of Dentistry, doesn’t think it’s all that strange. Talking with plant pathologists in her building, she found out [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Doctor Glenn Morris, alongside Univeristy of Florida President Bernie Machen, and deans from eight colleges, officially dedicate the Emerging Pathogens Institute with this ribbon-cutting ceremony. Dr. Glenn Morris, Director EPI “This is the first step in really getting the institute up and going.” This first step will arm [...]

The University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions has appointed Gregory C. Gray, M.D., M.P.H., founding chair of the college’s new department of environmental and global health. Gray comes to UF from the University of Iowa, where he established and directed the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases. “We are thrilled to have [...]

Nov. 1 marks the start of a new, tobacco-free era at the University of Florida and Shands HealthCare. As UF and Shands leaders first announced in August, the use of tobacco will no longer be permitted in or around any Health Science Center, Shands HealthCare or UF Physicians buildings or parking lots beginning Sunday. Smoking [...]

Scientists studying biology and geography may seem worlds apart, but together they have answered a question that has defied explanation about the spread of the HIV-1 epidemic in Africa.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 5-7-09 confirmed that a University of Florida student had H1N1 novel flu, commonly known as swine flu. That student has fully recovered after showing only mild symptoms and has not been on campus in more than a week. In light of that and in concurrence with guidance provided [...]

As scientists rush to figure out how the virus responsible for the current influenza outbreak originated, a group of the world’s experts on evolutionary biology — including a University of Florida team — has set aside some academic traditions to work together toward a solution. Rather than rush to publication with their individual findings on [...]