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Volunteers are needed in Jacksonville for research on the effect that eating fermented vegetables has on the body’s microbiome and heart.

Researchers say the goal of the study is to improve health messaging so hospitals and health agencies can better connect with the community.

Researchers are looking to enroll 7,600 people for the study into whether computer-based cognitive training can prevent and even improve disorders such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

Scientists around the world are working on a way to inject vaccines painlessly. The trick is to make the needles so small. they don't interact with the nerve endings that signal pain.

Parents who have enrolled their children in these studies say the risk is worth it for the greater good.

MIT bioengineer Linda Griffith spent years in debilitating pain before she was diagnosed with a condition often neglected in research. Her focus on the basic biology could lead to better treatments.

Biologists say newly efficient and accurate gene sequencing techniques have allowed them to fairly quickly detail full genomes and find overlooked genes in a broad range of 25 important species.

Severe allergic reactions to the Moderna and Pfizer shots have been rare but "higher than what we see with typical vaccines,,” says Dr. Tom Casale, an allergy and infectious disease expert at USF.

Dr. Michael Lauzardo, UF Emerging Pathogens Institute deputy director, wants to answer a different question with this new trial: Will vaccines prevent people from spreading the virus to others?

The health system's genomics director, Dr. Wesley Walker, says saliva samples from patients are being collected and sequenced for known variants.