University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE—In the much-heralded race to cure disease using gene therapy, scientists have struggled with a persistent problem: how to best ferry copies of healthy genes into the human body.

GAINESVILLE—A University of Florida professor says agricultural industry support for expanding trade with Latin America could depend on delaying a 200l ban on a controversial but widely used pesticide.

GAINESVILLE — A mailbox-sized dampener designed by University of Florida engineers greatly reduces wind-driven vibration in traffic-signal poles, increasing their life span and stability.

GAINESVILLE — An economic calamity would have to rival Hollywood’s “Godzilla” and “Deep Impact” to crush the record-high confidence of Florida’s consumers, University of Florida economists report.

GAINESVILLE—Hearing aids don’t restore normal hearing, but they do help and could be more useful to the estimated 85 percent of older Americans who could benefit from the devices but don’t wear them.

GAINESVILLE — University of Florida engineers are hoping to save taxpayers money by making more efficient and earth-friendly gas turbine engines for naval vessels and tanks, as well as helicopters and small power plants.

GAINESVILLE — It’s quiet, invisible and maddeningly complex.

GAINESVILLE—University of Florida researchers are peeking into the next century at what might happen to food crops if global warming continues at its current rate, and what they found is a good news/bad news situation.

GAINESVILLE—In their first months of life, babies drink in the details of their surroundings and begin to learn language from their parents’ soothing chatter. But for some, such words literally fall on deaf ears, though years may pass before someone recognizes it.

GAINESVILLE — Florida residents will get a preview of what some automakers see as the successor to the internal combustion engine when University of Florida researchers begin touring the state’s cities in a rare, fuel cell-powered bus late this year.