Imperial Valley News Center
Leaders accelerate drive to boost biotech in Los Angeles
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- Written by Eddie North-Hager
Los Angeles, California - Los Angeles policymakers and educational leaders called for a concerted strategy and broad-based support to build the region’s biotechnology future at a summit Thursday.
Warming Up the World of Superconductors
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- Written by Robert Perkins
Los Angeles, California - A superconductor that works at room temperature was long thought impossible, but scientists at USC may have discovered a family of materials that could make it reality.
Renowned Stanford poet Eavan Boland interrogates identity and nationhood in new collection
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- Written by Erik Fredner
Stanford, California - Though she was born and educated in Dublin, and raised her family there, Eavan Boland also lived in the United States and in London as a child. Her latest volume of poetry, A Woman Without a Country, engages some of the contrasts and contradictions that come from living in a place without feeling that one fully belongs to it. As she puts it in the book, "This sequence is dedicated to those who lost a country, not by history or inheritance, but through a series of questions to which they could find no answer."
Patent trolls serve valuable role in innovation
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- Written by Clifton B. Parker
Stanford, California - So-called patent trolls may actually benefit inventors and the innovation economy, according to a Stanford intellectual property expert.
Scholar blazes pathway for academic study of asexuality
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- Written by Leah Stark
Stanford, California - When confronted with the notion of asexuality, most people are baffled by the idea of a life devoid of sexual attraction.
First Detailed Microscopy Evidence of Bacteria at the Lower Size Limit of Life
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- Written by Dan Krotz
Berkeley, California - Scientists have captured the first detailed microscopy images of ultra-small bacteria that are believed to be about as small as life can get. The research was led by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley. The existence of ultra-small bacteria has been debated for two decades, but there hasn’t been a comprehensive electron microscopy and DNA-based description of the microbes until now.
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