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''Lost Years'' Found
Researchers at the University of Florida's Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research are using everything from DNA analyses to satellite telemetry to help answer questions about which the center's namesake could only speculate. It is a testament to Carr's knowledge of sea turtles that most of what he hypothesized, modern science has proven to be true.

An Ounce of Prevention,
A Pound of Cure
For decades, three questions have driven UF diabetes researchers: Can you predict diabetes? Can you prevent diabetes? What causes diabetes? Their discoveries have allowed physicians to predict the disease's development in many individuals. Now they are leading participants in the first nationwide study of ways to halt or delay the disease through daily doses of insulin.

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Seafood Safety
For many years, scientists at UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have studied ways to improve the safety and quality of all seafood --- oysters, clams, shrimp, fish and a host of other seafood products.

Submarine Solutions
Until recently, geologic events on the ocean floor might as well have been the work of mythological gods. But geologists at the University of Florida now are able to base their theories about the role the ocean floor plays in the Earth's development on fact rather than fantasy.

Perpetual Plastics
University of Florida engineering Professor Charles Beatty has spent his life studying the tangled chains of polymer molecules that make up plastics in an effort to recycle 70 billion pounds of laundry detergent bottles, PVC pipe and other incompatible plastics into useful materials.
 

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