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New investigator award for zoologist
January 10, 2013 by Lab Canada Saint John, NB – Chris Martyniuk, assistant professor in the University of New Brunswick Saint John’s department of biology and researcher with the Canadian Rivers Institute, recently received the Bob Boutilier New Investigator Award from the Canadian Society of Zoologists…
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Invading species can extinguish native plants despite recent reports
January 10, 2013 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Ecologists at the University of Toronto and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) have found that, given time, invading exotic plants will likely eliminate native plants growing in the wild despite recent reports to…
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Biologists bore into Canadian termite invasion
January 7, 2013 by Lab Canada London, ON – Scientists at the University of Western Ontario have discovered why termites wreak havoc on megacities like Toronto and Paris and how new findings may lead to possible pest controls. In research published in December in Environmental…
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Geographic complexity explains patterns of spread of white-nose syndrome in bats
December 18, 2012 by Lab Canada Athens, GA – The spread of white-nose syndrome, an emerging fungal disease in bats, may be determined by habitat and climate, scientists at the University of Georgia have found. Using data about the spread of white-nose syndrome to date, postdoctoral…
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TB treatment from an anti-parasite drug
November 28, 2012 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – While tuberculosis is not as widespread as it used to be, in 2011, 8.7 million people around the world contracted this disease and 1.4 million died from it, according to the World Health Organization. Some newly discovered…
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Making barley like saline soil
November 2, 2012 by Lab Canada Wageningen, Netherlands – Not only is climate change harming agriculture, salinisation of agricultural land is a global problem. Worldwide, about 3,230,000 km² of agricultural land is in some way affected by saline contamination according to FAO/UNESCO (Food and Agricultural Organization…
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Zombie bees not Halloween prank
November 1, 2012 by Lab Canada San Francisco, CA – Zombie movies have always had a great following. But far from fiction, researchers have found zombies in our midst. Honey bees, which have come under much pressure from environmental degradation and intense commercial exploitation, are facing…
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Research mammals will miss the flight
September 20, 2012 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Shipping research mammals will become more expensive and complex after the announcement that FedEx, UPS and DHL are committing themselves to stop this practice. In response to the Air Cruelty campaign launched by the People for the…
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Plankton defenseless as water chemistry changes
September 14, 2012 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON — A recent study has shown that changes in Canadian lake water chemistry has left plankton vulnerable to their predators. York biology Professor Norman Yan, the study’s senior author, says this may pose a serious environmental threat since…
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Breakthrough in treatment of muscular dystrophy
August 29, 2012 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB A new drug cocktail used by a researcher in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta improved Duchenne muscular dystrophy symptoms in non-human lab models. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is one a common genetic disorders…
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Controlling Johne’s disease in Alberta’s dairy cattle
August 28, 2012 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – Johne’s disease is an infectious disease that costs the Canadian cattle industry at least $90 million a year in lost production and animal deaths. A voluntary program run by researchers at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at…
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Drug research team welcomes Queen’s scientist
August 27, 2012 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – Focuses on mitigating the serious side effects from using nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) the Personalized NSAID Therapeutics Consortium (PENTACON) is 39 investigators from 18 institutions and four countries. A Canadian researcher has recently joined this group. Dr.…
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Linking toxins and eggshells
August 21, 2012 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – Measuring egg colour may offer a quick, inexpensive and non-destructive way to monitor areas of concern and evaluate potential human health risks according to new research. Environmental contaminants can cause birds’ eggs to change colour, offering a…
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A sensor to detect when plants are under attack
August 15, 2012 by Lab Canada Athens, GA – What we perceive as a sweet aroma of freshly cut grass is actually the plant equivalent of a distress call, one that the grass releases to signal that the lawn is under attack. “Plants have a defense mechanism…
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Seabirds affected by plastic pollution in Pacific Northwest
July 10, 2012 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Plastic pollution off the northwest coast of North America is reaching a very high level according to a new study led by a researcher at the University of British Columbia. The study, published online in the journal…
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University of Saskatchewan vaccine researchers in Kenya
July 5, 2012 by Lab Canada Kenya – Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) are in Kenya to launch two major projects aimed at addressing food security through livestock vaccine development. One project, led by VIDO-InterVac, is a…
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Cause of an inherited form of epilepsy discovered
July 4, 2012 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Researchers at McGill University have discovered the cause of an inherited form of epilepsy. The disease, known as double-cortex syndrome, primarily affects females and arises from mutations on a gene located on the X chromosome. Using an…
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Enviropigs meet their end
June 26, 2012 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – The public’s aversion to consuming genetically modified food has resulted in the death of 10 enviropigs at the University of Guelph. This group of genetically engineered pigs was put down last month when the university determined it…
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Marine predators in trouble
December 5, 2011 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Iconic marine predators such as sharks, tunas, swordfish, and marlins are becoming increasingly rare under current fishing trends, say University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers. In half of the North Atlantic and North Pacific waters under national…
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New model helps understand biodiversity
November 28, 2011 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Generalist feeders like foxes and raccoons may be crucial to sustaining biological diversity, according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). McGill University biology researchers have developed…
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Spider mite genome sequenced; opens way for non-pesticide control methods
November 28, 2011 by Lab Canada London, ON – An international consortium led by a researcher at the University of Western Ontario has unveiled the first genome of the second-largest group of animals on Earth: Chelicerates. Dr Miodrag Grbic, associate professor with Western’s Department of Biology,…
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Unlocking the mystery of the disappearing bats
August 8, 2011 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – A researcher at McMaster University is working to pull one of North America’s most common bats back from the brink of extinction. Jianping Xu, an associate professor of biology and member of the Institute for Infectious Disease…
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Mountain pine beetle jumps tree species
April 4, 2011 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – The Mountain Pine Beetle is on the move not just from one tree to another, but across tree species. A group of researchers funded in part by Genome Alberta, have conclusive evidence that the Mountain Pine Beetle…
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Canadian researchers first to generate pluripotent stem cells from horses
February 28, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON and Montreal, QC – In a world first, pluripotent stem cells have been generated from horses by a team of researchers led by Dr Andras Nagy at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto…
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$260,000 supports research into parasitic plants that attack conifers
February 14, 2011 by Lab Canada Kamloops, BC – Funding of $260,000 is being provided by BC’s provincial government to further research at Thompson Rivers University into parasitic plants that attack coniferous forests in the province. The funding will be used to acquire an advanced scanning…
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Researchers to investigate mysteries behind avian cholera
January 20, 2011 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Avian cholera is the most critical infectious disease affecting wild North American waterfowl. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has just awarded Carleton University Professor Mark Forbes and a team of researchers more…
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Ontario researcher plays major role in the deciphering of fruit fly and roundworm genome
December 23, 2010 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – An Ontario researcher has played a key role in the development of a new resource that will help genomics researchers around the world find new ways to prevent and treat cancer. Researchers this week published near-complete data…
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Research chair to focus on watershed research
December 13, 2010 by Lab Canada Winnipeg, MB – Dr David Lobb has been appointed as Manitoba’s first-ever research chair in watershed systems, with a focus on developing new ways to clean up Lake Winnipeg. “We congratulate Dr Lobb on his being named as this inaugural…
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Tobacco and nicotine explored as a pesticide
November 4, 2010 by Lab Canada Tobacco, used on a small scale as a natural organic pesticide for hundreds of years, is getting new scientific attention as a potential mass-produced alternative to traditional commercial pesticides. That is the focus of a study by University of Western…
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$1M funds research into protecting grizzly bears in Banff National Park
October 14, 2010 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – Fred Green, Canadian Pacific’s president and chief executive officer, has announced $1 million in funding for a multi-faceted, research-based, five-year action plan to further mitigate rail-related grizzly bear mortality in Banff National Park. The plan is being…
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Pine beetle researcher wins national award
October 8, 2010 by Lab Canada Prince George, BC – A professor at the University of Northern British Columbia, who is involved in research on the DNA of the mountain pine beetle, is being honoured by the Entomological Society of Canada for his efforts and activities…
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