Imperial Valley News Center
Stanford researchers genetically engineer yeast to produce opioids
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- Written by Tom Abate
Stanford, California - For thousands of years, people have used yeast to ferment wine, brew beer and leaven bread.
Are Vitamin E supplements healthy or harmful?
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- Written by Dr. John Swartzberg
Berkeley, California - t’s been nearly a century since UC Berkeley researchers discovered vitamin E. Since then, many studies have looked at the potential health benefits of this antioxidant, which supplement makers (and some researchers) predicted would help prevent cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease, help maintain eyesight and keep skin glowing.
Campanile bones hold climate-change clues
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- Written by Gretchen Kell
Berkeley, California - Like Sleeping Beauty, slumbering in a castle for 100 years, some 20 tons of fossils have spent more than a century in UC Berkeley’s bell tower, the Jane K. Sather Campanile. Behind locked doors and in dim and dusty rooms, the prehistoric objects, excavated in the early 1900s, appear forgotten.
Science vs. religion may be the wrong question
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- Written by IVN
Berkeley, California - Would voters entrust the White House to an atheist? Are atheists less trustworthy than those who believe in God? Or do atheists tend toward ethical behavior more than believers?
UC Berkeley ranked one of the coolest, greenest schools
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- Written by Green Liver
Berkeley, California - Once again, UC Berkeley has made the list of the top 10 “Cool Schools” for its commitment to the environment and sustainability.
GOP still clings to its Southern strategy
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- Written by UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California - In the 1960s, the Republican Party launched the Southern strategy – the use of coded racialized appeals to gain white votes.
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