Imperial Valley News Center
Stanford chemists craft catalyst for making biodegradable plastics
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- Written by Bjorn Carey
Stanford, California - The development of petroleum-based plastics is one of the crowning achievements of the 20th century, but they come with a hefty cost.
Portable device produces biopharmaceuticals on demand
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- Written by Helen Knight
Cambridge, Massachusetts - For medics on the battlefield and doctors in remote or developing parts of the world, getting rapid access to the drugs needed to treat patients can be challenging.
New lithium-oxygen battery greatly improves energy efficiency, longevity
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- Written by David L. Chandler
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Lithium-air batteries are considered highly promising technologies for electric cars and portable electronic devices because of their potential for delivering a high energy output in proportion to their weight. But such batteries have some pretty serious drawbacks: They waste much of the injected energy as heat and degrade relatively quickly. They also require expensive extra components to pump oxygen gas in and out, in an open-cell configuration that is very different from conventional sealed batteries.
Sports protect teen athletes from abusing opioids, heroin
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- Written by Jared Wadley
Ann Arbor, Michigan - Teen athletes are not as likely to abuse prescription painkillers or heroin as non-athletes, according to a new University of Michigan study published this week in the journal Pediatrics.
Teens who misuse pain meds are more likely to abuse drugs as adults
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- Written by Jared Wadley
Ann Arbor, Michigan - A new University of Michigan study about substance abuse confirms why parents should properly dispose of leftover prescription opioids.
The key to affordable biotherapeutics
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- Written by Brandi Klingerman
Notre Dame, Indiana - The availability of medicines in many low- and middle-income countries is undermined by poor medicine supply, insufficient health facilities, and the high cost of medicine, according to the World Health Organization. This includes the production or financial capability for establishing biotherapeutic production processes to treat a variety of common illnesses and diseases. However, what if these countries could utilize the millennia-old, household practice of farming silk from silkworm moth caterpillars to produce affordable, in-demand biology-based therapeutics?
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