Researchers identify food products that could reduce COVID transmission

The products can reduce the transmission potential of airborne pathogens by thickening and reducing a person’s saliva

21-Sep-2021 - Face masks and social distancing are both well-known ways to keep airborne pathogens, like COVID-19, at bay, but University of Central Florida researchers Michael Kinzel and Kareem Ahmed are working on a possible new one —a combination of food products that alters people’s saliva. The concept is ...

Nanoparticles loaded with component of common spice kill cancer cells

27-Jul-2017 - Attaching curcumin, a component of the common spice turmeric, to nanoparticles can be used to target and destroy treatment-resistant neuroblastoma tumor cells, according to a new study. The study, conducted in partnership by researchers at Nemours Children's Hospital and the University of Central ...

Nanoscience twist on centuries-old crop treatment is licensed

25-Jan-2017 - An international agricultural company has licensed a formula for fighting crop disease that a University of Central Florida scientist spent more than five years perfecting. Gowan Co. recently signed an agreement with UCF to obtain exclusive rights to the anti-fungal and anti-bacterial formulation ...

New, old science combine to make faster medical test

23-Jan-2017 - A UCF researcher has combined cutting-edge nanoscience with a magnetic phenomenon discovered more than 170 years ago to create a method for speedy medical tests. The discovery, if commercialized, could lead to faster test results for HIV, Lyme disease, syphilis, rotavirus and other infectious ...

Special sugar, nanoparticles combine to detect cholera toxin

19-Jan-2011 - A complex sugar may someday become one of the most effective weapons to stop the spread of cholera, a disease that has claimed thousands of lives in Haiti since the devastating earthquake last year. A technique developed by University of Central Florida scientists would allow relief workers to ...

UF researchers harness the power of plants to fight hemophilia

01-Apr-2010 - Hemophilia, a disease linked with legends of European monarchs, frail heirs and one flamboyant charlatan called Rasputin, still afflicts many people today. And the very treatments that can help can also put patients’ lives at risk. The standard treatment is infusion with an expensively produced ...