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Doug Bennett

Science Writer, Editor


Doug Bennett joined the UF Health staff in January 2015 as a science writer and editor. His topic areas include anatomy; biochemistry and molecular biology; molecular genetics and microbiology; pathology, immunology and lab medicine; and pharmacology. A native of Pittsburgh, he was previously an assistant metro editor at the Tampa Bay Times, Florida’s largest newspaper. Prior to that, he was an editor and reporter at newspapers in Fort Lauderdale, Arizona, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. He was among a team of reporters and editors whose work was a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist. He has dual undergraduate degrees in business and English writing from the University of Pittsburgh. He also did master’s degree studies in the journalism program at Kent State University.

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UF Health Shands main hospital building
The presence of the pJAK2 peptide (top middle) is shown to block replication of a human coronavirus. The next panel (top right) shows how an inactive control peptide does not affect the spread of the virus.
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The MySurgeryRisk mobile app gives doctors detailed information on each complication (left) and risk predictions from the algorithm along with major factors leading to the prediction (right).
Pten haploinsufficient mice have abnormal rates of growth across brain regions during development. Some regions — including those involved in sensory processing — have relative overgrowth (shown in red) while others relative undergrowth (shown in blue).
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Medical students walking on campus.