Governor Brown Announces Appointments
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- Category: California News
Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:
USDA releases Preliminary Grape Crush Report for California
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Sacramento, California - The 2015 crush totaled 3,862,385 tons, down 7 percent from the 2014 crush of 4,144,534 tons.
Long-Distance Course Empowers Film Students to Tackle Ethnic, Religious and Sectarian Conflict
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- Written by Doug Ramsey
- Category: California News
San Diego, California - Every Wednesday evening for 15 weeks starting in April 2015, UC San Diego alumnus Robert Hooper (B.A. ’69) taught a class from a conference room in the Qualcomm Institute on the UC San Diego campus, just as he had done in 2014. But instead of teaching students in-person in San Diego, Hooper tutored and mentored students from five universities in Bangladesh over a two-way, interactive Internet videoconferencing link that piggybacked on the Qualcomm Institute’s advanced teleconferencing network.
Cat Stem Cell Therapy Gives Humans Hope
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Davis, California - By the time Bob the cat came to the UC Davis veterinary hospital, he had used up most of his nine lives. Afflicted with a painful oral inflammatory disorder, Bob had already lost all of his teeth in an effort to treat the disease known as feline chronic gingivostomatitis, or FCGS. In a last-ditch effort, Bob’s owner enrolled him in a clinical trial to receive a novel stem cell therapy treatment.
Turning air into fuel: USC scientists convert carbon dioxide into methanol
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Los Angeles, California - They’re making fuel from thin air at the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute.
Scientists uncover neural pathway responsible for opioid withdrawal
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- Written by Rosemary Mena-Werth
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Stanford, California - In addition to the desire to experience a "high," one of the obstacles drug addicts encounter is the difficulty of overcoming a myriad of harsh withdrawal symptoms including anxiety, depression, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. When people learn to associate the loss of drug use with the pain of withdrawal, it can create an urge to use that is as strong as the "high" itself, making it even more difficult to quit.
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