Imperial Valley News Center
"The Martian" a Joyous Movie Review
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- Written by Joy Daniels
Hollywood, California - "The Martian" is one of the best Space Movies I have ever seen. Matt Damon deserves an Oscar for his performance, indeed every character in this film resonates *Real*. The Ode to Science and Math that resonates through this story makes up for the plot line Suspensions of Disbelief on some unlikely stuff (like the Weather on Mars) hey, it's a Movie, after all.
NIH Grantees Win 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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- Written by IVN
Washington, DC - The 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to National Institutes of Health grantees Paul Modrich, Ph.D., of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C.; and Aziz Sancar, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., for having mapped, at a molecular level, how cells repair damaged DNA and safeguard the genetic information. They share the award with Tomas Lindahl, Ph.D., of the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
International diabetes research knowledge portal opens to public, scientists
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- Written by Amy F. Reiter
Washington, DC - Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) have expanded a recently launched online library, called a knowledge portal, which allows open-access searching of human genetic and clinical information on type 2 diabetes. Individual data will remain confidential.
NIH announces Common Fund 2015 High-Risk, High-Reward Research awardees
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Washington, DC - Seventy-eight grants have been awarded to scientists proposing highly innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research, under the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program supported by the NIH Common Fund.
Biologist Leads Research Shedding Light On Stem Cells
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- Written by Arthur Hirsch
Baltimore, Maryland - A Johns Hopkins University biologist has led a research team reporting progress in understanding the mysterious shape-shifting ways of stem cells, which have vast potential for medical research and disease treatment.
Many Use Prescription Painkillers, Most See Abuse as Major Health Concern
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- Written by Stephanie Desmon
Baltimore, Maryland - More than one in four Americans has taken prescription painkillers in the past year, even as a majority say that abuse of these medications is a very serious public health concern, according to new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research.
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