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UC Davis developing faster, more accurate robotic cultivator
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- Written by Pat Bailey
Davis, California - Controlling weeds could soon become more effective, affordable and sustainable for vegetable growers in California and beyond, thanks to a system under development at UC Davis that will help plants communicate with a robotic cultivator.
Face blindness predicted by structural differences in the brain
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- Written by Leslie Willoughby
Stanford, California - Recognizing the faces of family and friends seems vital to social interaction. However, some individuals lack this essential skill. Those with a condition called face blindness, or prosopagnosia, can see eyes, lips and other facial features, yet they cannot remember the whole picture, a face. The condition touches one in 50 people, including actor Brad Pitt, neurologist Oliver Sacks and primatologist Jane Goodall. Now Stanford neuroscientists have discovered that the structure of the wiring in the brain is key to predicting the condition.
Stanford launches major effort to expedite vaccine discovery with $50 million grant
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- Written by IVN
Stanford, California - Stanford University today announced that it has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate efforts in vaccine development. The $50 million grant over 10 years will build on existing technology developed at Stanford and housed in the Human Immune Monitoring Core, and will establish the Stanford Human Systems Immunology Center. The center aims to better understand how the immune system can be harnessed to develop vaccines for the world's most deadly infectious diseases.
Tax reform could reduce wealth inequality gap
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- Written by Clifton B. Parker
Stanford, California - Tax reform could ease the escalating high-end wealth inequality trend in the United States, according to a Stanford tax scholar.
Bioengineers develop tool for reprogramming genetic code
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- Written by Bjorn Carey
Stanford, California - Biology relies upon the precise activation of specific genes to work properly. If that sequence gets out of whack, or one gene turns on only partially, the outcome can often lead to a disease.
Higher ed in crisis? Make that plural, says veteran observer
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- Written by Barry Bergman
Berkeley, California - Goldie Blumenstyk, who’s followed the world of colleges and universities for more than a quarter-century as a writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education, titled her new book American Higher Education in Crisis? What Everyone Needs to Know. A reader need only peek at the introduction to find her answer.
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