Credit: UC San Diego and IFOM-inSTEM. An international team of researchers has identified a new molecule involved in skin fibrosis, a life-threatening disease characterized by the inflammation and hardening of skin tissue.
Although kopi luwak is a form of processing rather than a variety of coffee, it has been called one of the most expensive coffees in the world, with retail prices reaching â¬550 / US$700 per kilogram. Kopi luwak is produced mainly on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago.
The coastal village (or puerto) of Chicxulub, 6 km east of the nearest town, Progreso, lies almost exactly on the geographic center of the crater. The name Chicxulub is Yucatec Maya language, where châik means flea or tick, and xulubâ means devil, demon, or horns. In The Chronicle of Chac Xulub Chen, Nakuk Pech says that the original name of the town (Chac Xulub Chen) means the well of the great horns, and that Chic Xulub may have been a play on words, as it is an idiom for cuckolding.