Imperial Valley News Center
USDA releases Preliminary Grape Crush Report for California
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- Written by IVN
Sacramento, California - The 2015 crush totaled 3,862,385 tons, down 7 percent from the 2014 crush of 4,144,534 tons.
FTC Brings Two Actions Against Operators of Online ‘High Schools’ deemed diploma mills
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Phoenix, Arizona - The Federal Trade Commission has filed charges against two operators of online “high schools” that claim to be legitimate but are alleged to be little more than diploma mills charging anywhere from $135 to $349 for a worthless certificate.
Cover crops, a farming revolution with deep roots in the past
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- Written by CDFA via Stephanie Strom - New York Times
Sacramento, California - When Mark Anson came home with his hair on fire after a seminar on the seemingly soporific topic of soil health, his younger brother, Doug, was skeptical.
Alcohol Also Damages the Liver by Allowing Bacteria to Infiltrate
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- Written by Heather Buschman, PhD
San Diego, California - Alcohol itself can directly damage liver cells. Now researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report evidence that alcohol is also harmful to the liver for a second reason - it allows gut bacteria to migrate to the liver, promoting alcohol-induced liver disease. The study, conducted in mice and in laboratory samples, is published February 10 in Cell Host & Microbe.
Engineers 3D-print a New Lifelike Liver Tissue for Drug Screening
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- Written by Liezel Labios
San Diego, California - A team led by engineers at the University of California, San Diego has 3D-printed a tissue that closely mimics the human liver’s sophisticated structure and function. The new model could be used for patient-specific drug screening and disease modeling. The work was published this week in the online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Long-Distance Course Empowers Film Students to Tackle Ethnic, Religious and Sectarian Conflict
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- Written by Doug Ramsey
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.
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