Entries by Aj Cheline

New Ag-Tech Startup Helps Farmers Analyze Water Use

By Jocelyn Anderson Water usage may be California’s No. 1 topic in 2015 — and last year and the one before that. As the state enters its fourth year of drought, everyone is seeking new options for monitoring and usage of this precious resource. In September, Governor Jerry Brown signed groundwater legislation, paving the way […]

New combination drug controls tumor growth and metastasis in mice

From UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at UC Davis, University of Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School have created a combination drug that controls both tumor growth and metastasis. By combining a COX-2 inhibitor, similar to Celebrex, and an epoxide hydrolase (sEH) inhibitor, the drug controls angiogenesis (blood vessel formation), limiting a tumor’s ability to […]