UGA research
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Food
UGA Study: Can Essential Oils Keep Produce Fresh?
Inside the food science building at the University of Georgia, students are working alongside researchers to determine whether there is an organic alternative to traditional methods of shelf life extension. Researchers in UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Laurel Dunn and Faith Critzer, are studying the use of essential…
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Health
UGA Research Explores Link Between Structural Racism, Health Inequities
The University of Georgia School of Public Health launched the Family Matters Georgia study in partnership with the University of Minnesota in fall 2022, aiming to advance the understanding of structural racism and discrimination’s (SRD) effects on health equity. “We’re trying to look more at the why, not just the…
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Environment
The Future of Forestland Ownership is Female
Forestry has long been a male-dominated field, but an increasing number of women are beginning to inherit their husbands’, fathers’ and families’ lands. Due to higher life expectancies, these women are often thrown into land ownership without any prior knowledge or education of forest management. As a result, these forests…
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Athens-Clarke County
UGA Researchers Simulate Traumatic Brain Injuries in Lab
This article originally appeared in Georgia Health News. Isabelle Blaber was out horseback riding a few days before final exams in April 2016. She was 19 at the time, a freshman at Rhodes College in Memphis, and she had been a rider since she was 5. But on this particular day…
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Athens-Clarke County
UGA Researchers Find Potential Prostate Cancer Treatment
ATHENS, Ga. — University of Georgia researchers have found a potential treatment for prostate cancer through “mouse models of the disease.” The study co-author Somanath Shenoy, Ph.D., looks forward to the study after years of research. “We had to start from scratch in order to find the importance of that molecule…
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Health
UGA Researchers Working on New Cancer Treatment
http://youtu.be/MVcofilBsXw UGA researchers are developing a new cancer treatment by using light. They are in the process of advancing the treatment they found using nanoparticles in cancer cells. “Here what we are trying to do is put a molecule which can be activated using light and then you use that…