UF chemistry professor is Florida Science Newsmaker in 2011
Stephen A. Miller and his team have invented a biodegradable plastic that can be used to replace petroleum-based shopping bags, beverage bottles and other items. ..
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
New Source of Stem Cell Generation Pioneered at UCF
A process that prompts a single gene to generate millions of supercharged stem cells, which can then turn into any kind of cell a body needs to repair itself, has been patented at the University of Central Florida. ..
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
FAU Launches 2012 Frontiers in Science Public Lecture Series with Max Planck Scientific Director and CEO
Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science will launch its Frontiers in Science 2012 public lecture series with a presentation by David Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., scientific director and chief executive officer of the Max Planck Florida Institute. “Illuminating Brain Circuits” will take place on Friday, January 6 at 3:30 p.m. in the Charles E. Schmidt Biomedical Science Center, Room 126, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. ..
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
How the Brain Cell Works: A Dive Into Its Inner Network at UM
University of Miami (UM) biology professor Akira Chiba is leading a multidisciplinary team to develop the first systematic survey of protein interactions within brain cells. The team is aiming to reconstruct genome-wide in situ protein-protein interaction networks (isPIN) within the neurons of a multicellular organism. Preliminary data were presented at the American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting, December 3 through 7, 2011, in Denver, Colorado. ..
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
UF: New breakthrough shows promise for affordable plastic solar energy cells
University of Florida researchers report they have achieved a new record in efficiency with a prototype solar cell that could be manufactured using a roll-to-roll process. ..
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Hellbender salamander UF study seeks answers for global amphibian decline
A new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers on the endangered Ozark Hellbender giant salamander is the first to detail its skin microbes, the bacteria and fungi that defend against pathogens. ..
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
UF, Moffitt researchers find blood cancer may be more common than realized
A group of life-threatening blood disorders collectively called myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, may occur four times more often than reported by national cancer registries, according to new research from the University of Florida based on data from Medicare claims. ..
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
UM Researcher Develops New Way to Assess Risk for Chemicals
Approximately 80,000 industrial chemicals are in use and about 700 new chemicals are introduced to commerce each year in the United States, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. To assess human health risks from exposure to harmful substances, James Englehardt, professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Miami, is proposing a new technique that is more efficient than current methods. ..
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Monday, December 19, 2011
New UCF Nanotechnology May Speed Up Drug Testing
Testing the effectiveness of new pharmaceuticals may get faster thanks to a new technique incorporating quantum dots developed at the University of Central Florida. Some drug testing can take a decade or more, but UCF associate professor Swadeshmukul Santra and his team have created an electronic quantum dots (Qdots) probe that “lights up” when a drug it is delivering attaches to cancer cells. The research appears online in this month’s Biomaterials. ..
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
FIT professor's snake research could rattle scientific world
A research project going on at Florida Tech involves teaching snakes — so that hopefully, they can teach us a thing or two. Michael Grace, an associate dean of the College of Science at Florida Tech and a professor of biological sciences, earned a three-year, $369,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his work on the mechanisms of infrared imaging in pit vipers, pythons and boas. ..
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