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Every three minutes, someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma — which are cancers of the blood, bone marrow and lymph nodes.Treatments for blood cancers often require hematopoietic stem cell transplants but…

Whether you’re driving, riding a bicycle, skateboard or scooter, or walking around campus, it’s important to know the rules of the road.It’s the responsibility of both drivers and pedestrians to pay attention to their surroundings, which…

It’s been seven years since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas rocket, bound for an asteroid 200 million miles from Earth.The unmanned spacecraft was tasked with rendezvousing with asteroid Bennu to…

Today, people from all corners of the globe join to celebrate World Tourism Day with a collective message of fostering unity through the exploration of diverse cultures and promoting sustainable travel practices. Designated by the United…

She was a professional ballerina; he survived an earthquake in Haiti. And on Monday, both promised to become one of “The Good Doctors” as the UCF College of Medicine held its 15th White Coat Ceremony, welcoming first-year medical students…

University of Central Florida researchers have achieved new record-setting power density for ethanol fuel cells, helping advance the technology as a competitor to fossil fuels and electric car batteries.Ethanol fuel cells offer cleaner…

University of Central Florida researchers are advancing AI-assisted drug screening technology with a new method that not only improves their own model’s predictive ability but also that of seven other state-of-the-art models.This new…

Nine UCF Health doctors were recently recognized as the community’s 2023 Top Physicians in an online poll by Orlando Family Magazine. The physicians, like all at UCF Health, are faculty at the UCF College of Medicine and teach medical…

UCF and MIT researchers are using farm-raised seafood as a model to create new technologies that fight pathogenic bacteria.College of Medicine microbiologist Salvador Almagro-Moreno and MIT’s Otto Cordero were recently awarded a grant…

Anew project from the University of Central Florida is looking to the soils for a way to cool the skies.Funded by a nearly $750,000 grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the research will examine a method to keep…