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Head-Turning Technology
Advanced treatment promises better outcomes for prostate cancer
Rollie Swingle didn’t have treatment options for his stage IV prostate cancer.
Think Inside the Box
Whether it's clothing or computers, it usually comes in a box
Tom Kandris makes boxes. And his company, PackageOne Inc., better known as American River Packaging, can also fill them.
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Web of Possibilities
A UOP scientist on the verge of a breakthrough
The black widows caged in professor Craig Vierra’s laboratory evoke the macabre. But here, in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stockton’s University of the Pacific, these crawlers are the story’s heroines.
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Growth Strategy: Make More Widgets
How manufacturing could bolster the region...eventually
As Sacramento attempts to forge a regional economic development strategy, manufacturing is being touted as a potential breadwinner, but rebuilding the industry piecemeal could take time.
A Bright Future
Local tech companies are changing the trajectory of energy consumption
In response to global warming, foreign oil reliance and overstressing the nation’s current energy system, policy makers and citizens are backing efforts to produce more safe, clean, renewable energy. But with numerous limitations, implementing green energy has been difficult.
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Golden State
A Folsom company thrives on SoCal sun
It didn’t take German immigrant Martin Hermann long to see California as the land of sunshine. And within that bounteous golden glow, he imagined opportunity.
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Risky Business
How employees are opening doors to hackers
At first glance, the email appeared innocuous enough. All employees were being asked to change their passwords. Just click the link.
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Genetically Engineered Industry
The Capital Region holds promise for agricultural technology
A few months after the 2002 launch of Arcadia Biosciences Inc. in Phoenix, CEO Eric Rey insisted the company move to California. Not to Silicon Valley, but to Davis.
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Sun Farm Squabble
Are solar projects right for Yolo ag land
Yolo County is doubly blessed. Within its boundaries lie some of the nation’s richest farmland; the open expanses also make it a prime place to develop solar energy.
Tech Connect
Linking green business' buyers and sellers
When Sacramento-based Aerojet decided to convert part of a superfund site into a solar field, it sought bids from companies across the country. The project, after all, would be big — 35 acres ultimately generating six megawatts of power, making it one of the largest industrial solar projects in the country.