An internationally regarded authority on adult stem cells at the University of Florida will help oversee research spending at the newly established California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, a landmark initiative to supply $3 billion for stem cell research at California universities and research institutions. Dennis Steindler, executive director of UF’s Evelyn F. and William L. [...]

A breakdown in brain cell communication may contribute to the most common biochemical cause of mental retardation, University of Florida scientists have discovered. The process is akin to a baseball game gone bad. Imagine if a pitcher were joined by six players simultaneously winding up on the mound. Crouched behind home plate, the single catcher [...]

Satya Narayan, Ph.D., an associate professor of anatomy and cell biology at the UF Shands Cancer Center, has been named to the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The Bethesda, Md.-based nonprofit scientific and educational organization seeks to advance the science of biochemistry and molecular biology in part through advocacy for funding of basic [...]

Stuart L. Klein, M.A. has joined the College of Medicine as executive director of the Proton Therapy Institute in Jacksonville. He is currently working from Gainesville on the operational plans for the multi-million dollar institute set to open in the summer of 2006. For the last 14 years, Klein was administrative director of the Department [...]

Sleeping woes may explain why children with epilepsy are often so hyperactive, say researchers with the University of Florida’s Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute. Characterized at its extreme by physical convulsions, epilepsy has long been thought to cause excitability and contrariness in children. But UF researchers writing in the journal Epilepsy & [...]

Patients who hear the dreaded words “you have cancer” invariably look forward to the day the doctor tells them “you’re cured.” But University of Florida researchers say survival often comes at its own price — the mind may need mending even after the body heals. A national study of cancer patients who underwent bone marrow [...]

A genetic tool with the potential to identify which trauma and burn patients are most likely to become seriously ill has worked consistently in a wide range of experimental clinical settings — an important hurdle to overcome before the method is routinely used in emergency rooms and intensive care units. In a report published March [...]

Steven Ghivizzani, Ph.D., an associate professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation and of molecular genetics and microbiology, has received a Kappa Delta Award, one of the most prestigious honors in orthopaedic research. Ghivizzani, a molecular orthopaedics researcher, and colleague Paul Robbins, Ph.D., of the University of Pittsburgh, received the Ann Doner Vaughan Award for their collaborative [...]

University of Florida pediatrics chairman and gene therapy expert Dr. Terence R. Flotte, is being recognized for his research efforts with one of the most prestigious awards in pediatrics. The Society for Pediatric Research has named Flotte, a UF Nemours eminent scholar professor of pediatrics and a professor of molecular genetics and microbiology, a 2005 [...]

Football fans faced with a frosty pitcher of beer and a heaping platter of wings on Super Bowl Sunday often respond as if it were fourth-and-goal – they go for it. But weight-conscious people should heed the humble rat, which stays trim by instinctively cutting calories when indulging in alcoholic drinks, say researchers at the [...]