Governor Brown Announces Appointments
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- Written by IVN
- Category: California News
Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments.
California State employees donate 13 tons of turkey, help set record at Sacramento Food Bank
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Sacramento, California - A partnership between California state employees and the Sacramento Food Bank has helped produce a record number of turkey donations. The food bank accepted more than 9,300 turkeys for needy families in the 2014 Turkey Drop, with 1,760 of them–more than 26,000 pounds (13 tons!)–provided by state employees.
Bioengineering Study Finds Two-Cell Mouse Embryos Already Talking about Their Future
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- Written by Catherine Hockmuth
- Category: California News
San Diego, California - Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that mouse embryos are contemplating their cellular fates in the earliest stages after fertilization when the embryo has only two to four cells, a discovery that could upend the scientific consensus about when embryonic cells begin differentiating into cell types.
$6.9 million funds studies of health-boosting compounds in cow’s milk
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Davis, California - After spending more than a decade decoding breast milk’s important health-promoting constituents, a team of researchers in the Foods for Health Institute at the University of California, Davis, is now doing the same for cow’s milk, with potential benefits both for human health and the U.S. dairy industry.
Engineers create ‘superomniphobic’ texture capable of repelling all liquids
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- Written by Matthew Chin
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Los Angeles, California - A pair of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created the first surface texture that can repel all liquids, no matter what material the surface is made of.
Donations needed to help dogs and cats of the homeless
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Sacramento, California - Help is welcomed this holiday season to help take the chill out of life on the streets for the dogs and cats of area homeless people.
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