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Collaborative biomedical project launched with $12M in funding
August 3, 2016 by Lab Product News Hamilton, ON – McMaster University is receiving funding of up to $11.96 million from the federal government to help create and operate the Fraunhofer Project Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (BEAM). The funding will also be used to upgrade…
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Big bioreactor BREAKTHROUGH
December 1, 2015 by Lab Canada No matter what the industry, taking the step from providing components to creating long-term partnerships is increasingly the name of the game. When Trelleborg Sealing Solutions wanted to break into the highly innovative life sciences industry, the company sought…
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New program supports early development of bio-industrial technologies
July 21, 2015 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions has launched a new funding program, “Alberta Bio Future Product and Technology Commercialization,” that is aimed at helping companies with pre-commercial or commercial development of new bio-industrial products or bio-industrial technologies. Bio-industrial products…
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Bio-industry commercialization the focus on new partnership
July 21, 2015 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) have formed a partnership they say will help Canadian firms to translate research and development from the lab to the marketplace. The partnership’s focus…
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ChemBio event highlights Nordic chemical industry, innovation
March 24, 2015 by Lab Canada Pasila, Finland – One of the highlights for the chemical sector in the Nordic Region so far this year was ChemBio Finland, held last week at the Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre in Pasila, Finland. The organizers reported that 66…
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3D skin tissue printer wins technology award
September 24, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Proprietary 3D bioprinting technology, PrintAlive Bioprinter, developed by University of Toronto students Arianna McAllister and Lian Leng, has won the Canadian stage of the 2014 James Dyson Award. The bioprinter represents a huge leap forward in producing…
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$1.9M supports bio-fibre quality research projects
July 21, 2014 by Lab Canada Winnipeg, MB – Manitoba’s Composites Innovation Centre is receiving over $1.9 million in combined federal-provincial funding from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development to support FibreCITY, North America’s first agriculture fibre-grading centre of excellence program. The…
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Biotech firm supports research into biosimilar products
January 21, 2014 by Lab Canada Charlottetown, PEI – Biotechnology company Somru BioScience is receiving $230,575 in funding to help it develop new products for emerging markets. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) is providing $171,825 to assist with purchasing state-of-art equipment for the development of…
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Genotyping arrays to help sustainable wheat production
January 14, 2014 by Lab Canada Santa Clara, CA and Bristol, UK – Affymetrix and University of Bristol say they have collaboratively designed a wheat genotyping array and analyzed data from experiments as part of an effort to understand wheat genetics and breeding with a goal…
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$1.25M supports biomaterials research in Guelph
October 29, 2013 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – Biomaterials research at the University of Guelph is receiving $1.25 million in funding from the BMO Financial Group. “The support from BMO will allow our researchers to continue to revolutionize the use of plant materials,” said Alastair…
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Collaboration to boost bioindustrial innovations
December 3, 2012 by Lab Canada Sarnia, ON – The Bioindustrial Innovation Centre (BIC) says it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Fundacion Foro Argentino de Biotecnologia (FAB) in order to foster relations between Argentina and Canada in the bioindustrial innovations sector. “By working together,…
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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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Stem cells may prevent and cure Alzheimer’s
September 28, 2012 by Lab Canada Seoul, South Korea – Researchers at Korea’s Seoul National University and the RNL Stem Cell Technology Institute announced this week the results of a study that suggests that adult stem cells may not only have a positive effect on those…
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Growing drugs inside corn
September 18, 2012 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Corn can provide more than tasty food, animal feed or the sugar for what we should not eat. Researchers in Canada and Australia have grown a drug in corn that can treat a rare genetic disease. Reporting…
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Raman spectroscopy to diagnose skin cancers
September 17, 2012 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – After initial testing at the Skin Care Centre at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) and at the BC Cancer Agency, beta units of Verisante Technology Aura are being placed in Calgary and Edmonton, with additional units to be…
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New tissue engineering tool invented at UofT
August 16, 2012 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A new device that may allow for the uniform, large-scale engineering of tissue has been developed at the University of Toronto. Scientists manipulate biomaterials into the micro-device through several channels. The biomaterials are then mixed, causing a…
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Neurochip development takes step forward
August 12, 2012 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – Researchers at the University of Calgary have achieved a major milestone in the further development of a neurochip − a microchip with the ability to monitor several functions of the brain. Orly Yadid-Pecht, PhD, and Naweed Syed,…
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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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Saint-Hyacinthe biotech hub named best emerging research/science park
December 12, 2011 by Lab Canada Saint-Hyacinthe, QC – The City of Agrifood, Veterinary and Agroenvironment Biotechnology in Saint-Hyacinthe, QC has been named Best Emerging Research/Science Park Award during the Association of University Research Parks’ AURP 2011 Awards of Excellence. The award is presented each year…
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Construction starts on bioscience manufacturing centre
February 14, 2011 by Lab Canada Charlottetown , PEI – A new BioCommons Manufacturing Centre is being built in the BioCommons Research Park. The project recently received funding support of more than $4.65 million from the federal and provincial governments. The 30,000 sq ft centre will…
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Next-generation biofuels project receives $5.5M funding
January 18, 2010 by Lab Canada Waterdown, ON – A technology that could allow biofuels producers to increase both their profitability and competitiveness has received $5.5 million in funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). The project, led by SunOpta BioProcess, will involve the construction of…
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