Genetics Institute

Providing insight into the evolution of flowering plants

New plant genome study may offer clues to improving all major food crops By Stephenie Livingston, Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida researchers and their colleagues have sequenced the […]

Student Katie O’Shaughnessy and Cohn Lab win accolades

Katie O’Shaughnessy’s award-winning embryonic little skate photograph is currently on display at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Katie’s photograph won the FASEB BioArt image contest in August 2013. […]

13 UFGI Faculty Present at ScienceWriters 2013

The National Association of Science Writers and Council for the Advancement of Science Writing annual ScienceWriters meeting will be held this weekend on the University of Florida campus. The UF […]

Genetics News of Interest

The Year In Review: Celebrating Our Achievements in 2013 Part 2

Part 2 of our “year in review” focuses on the hospitals, research institutes and centers that are part of the UF Health family. When added to the colleges described last week, the size and scope...

UF receives grant to join national metabolomics consortium

To help chart the course of biomedical discovery in the newest of the “-omics” frontiers, the University of Florida today launched the Southeast Center for Integrated Metabolomics with a...

Gene therapy researcher receives highest honor from the Foundation Fighting Blindness

The Foundation Fighting Blindness, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to finding treatments and cures for blinding retinal diseases, presented the Llura Liggett Gund Award to University of...

Activation of cell death gene triggered loss of phallus in bird evolution

Researchers at the University of Florida Genetics Institute have discovered how, at the genetic level, different bird species either develop or do not develop phalluses, a finding that may help...

UF researchers develop ‘nanotrain’ for targeted cancer drug transport

University of Florida researchers have developed a “DNA nanotrain” that fast-tracks its payload of cancer-fighting drugs and bioimaging agents to tumor cells deep within the body. The...

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