Imperial Valley News Center
LiquiGlide slides into consumer space
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- Written by Rob Matheson
Cambridge, Massachusetts - The days of wasting condiments - and other products - that stick stubbornly to the sides of their bottles may be gone, thanks to MIT spinout LiquiGlide, which has licensed its nonstick coating to a major consumer-goods company.
Understanding Why Animals Are Healthy Offers Path to Precision Medicine
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- Written by Duke Medicine
Durham, North Carolina - Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School have identified a mechanism that explains why some mutations can be disease-causing in one genome but benign in another.
Atmospheric Mysteries Unraveling
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- Written by Katy Human
Boulder, Colorado - It’s been difficult to explain patterns of toxic mercury in some parts of the world, such as why there’s so much of the toxin deposited into ecosystems from the air in the southeastern United States, even upwind of usual sources.
Cool Symbols of Summer on New Starbucks Cold Cups
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- Written by IVN
Seattle, Washington - Remember the 70’s and 80’s pop culture mainstay, the boombox? It was an oversized music player with two speakers and a handle that people carried around to blast out their favorite songs from the radio and cassette tapes..
Punishing disabled people to make reality match a flawed theory?
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- Written by Ekklesia
London, England - In the New Statesman, 25-year-old Rosie Fletcher recently wrote, "Disease isn’t like a gas meter. It has no notion of economics. It doesn’t switch off because you’ve stopped putting money in. This isn’t some kind of elaborate con I’ve been running … Cutting my benefits won't get me back into work. It will make my life smaller, more stressful. It will make me sicker."
Menopausal women have lower risk of dying from heart attack than men
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- Written by American Heart Association
Dallas, Texas - While menopause is commonly considered a risk factor for heart disease, menopausal women had a lower risk of dying from heart attack than men; however, this difference was less pronounced among blacks, according to research in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
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