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Gene variant identified as a heart disease risk factor for women
August 15, 2014 by Lab Canada London, ON – When it comes to heart disease, Dr. Ross Feldman says women are often in the dark. Historically, it was thought that heart disease was a men’s-only disease, however, data has shown that post-menopausal women are just as…
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Tuberculosis specialist wins medical association’s top honour
August 15, 2014 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – The University of Alberta’s Anne Fanning has won the Canadian Medical Association’s highest honour, the Frederic Newton Gisborne Starr Award. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario medical school, Dr. Fanning did postgraduate training in internal…
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Digital pathology supplier forms new distributor agreements
August 15, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Objective Pathology Services, which develops digital pathology infrastructure and software solutions, has announced two new distribution agreements. The company has formed a partnership with Microscopes International to introduce their new uSCOPE Digital Microscope, which it says is…
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University Health Network appoints new chief executive
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Dr. Peter Pisters, currently vice president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Regional Care System, has been named as the University Health Network (UHN)’s next president & CEO. Dr. Pisters is an internationally known…
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Black hole at the birth of the universe
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Waterloo, ON – Our universe may have emerged from a black hole in a higher-dimensional universe, propose a trio of Perimeter Institute researchers in the cover story of the latest Scientific American. The big bang poses a big question: if…
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Discovery sheds light on where visual memories are born
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Researchers at McGill University have discovered there is a clear frontier in the brain between the area that encodes information about what is immediately before the eyes and the area that encodes the abstract representations that are…
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Research uncovers treatment for male infertility FASEB
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – Richard Oko, a researcher at Queen’s University, and his co-investigators have come up with a promising method of treating male infertility using a synthetic version of the sperm-originated protein known as PAWP. They found this protein is…
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Just how many bugs are on that elevator button?
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Elevator buttons are more likely to be colonized by bacteria than toilet surfaces, a new Sunnybrook-led study of three large urban hospitals has found. “Elevators are a component of modern hospital care, and are used by multiple…
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Mixed genes mix up the migrations of hybrid birds
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Mixed genes appear to drive hybrid birds to select more difficult routes than their parent species, according to new research from University of British Columbia zoologists. The study was recently published online in Ecology Letters. Researcher Kira…
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$6.25M in NSERC funding for math research consortium
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – The Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences, an international mathematics consortium headquartered at the University of British Columbia, has been awarded $6.25 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC). “We have received…
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Milky Way, Andromeda galaxies have vastly different masses
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Astronomers at the University of British Columbia have collaborated with international researchers to calculate the precise mass of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, dispelling the notion that the two galaxies have similar masses. While it was…
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Researchers develop screen for drug-resistant form of hep C drug
August 11, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – A project by researchers at the University of British Columbia has developed a screening process to ensure that an effective but expensive treatment for hepatitis C (HCV) will be given to only those patients who would benefit…
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New DNA analysis technique promises speedier diagnosis
August 5, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Researchers from McGill University and the Génome Québec Innovation Centre have achieved a technical breakthrough which they say should result in speedier diagnosis of cancer and various pre-natal conditions. The key discovery, which is described online this…
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Canadian cancer research pioneer passes away
August 5, 2014 by Lab Canada Columbia, SC – Cancer research lost a pioneer on Sunday, August 3, 2014, with the passing of Dr. Emmanuel Farber, a renowned pathologist who made fundamental contributions to the understanding of chemical carcinogenesis. Dr. Farber’s studies in experimental pathology demonstrated…
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$2.5M supports agricultural research at Vineland centre
August 5, 2014 by Lab Canada Vineland Station, OB – The Vineland Research and Innovation Centre has received $2.5 million from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to support two research projects. Just over $1.4 million funding will be used to modernize the centre’s rose breeding program using…
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Mouse models of autism respond to therapy of social aspect part of brain
August 5, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – An area of the brain tied to empathy, urges and other social aspects of our behaviour is abnormal in mice used to model autism, but some of the abnormality is repairable with drug therapy during a critical…
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Study probes gene responsible for neuromuscular disorder
July 30, 2014 by Lab Canada Peterborough, ON – Craig Brunetti, a biology professor at Trent University, along with environmental and life sciences PhD student Andressa Lacerda and undergraduate biochemistry student Emily Hartjes, have discovered the cellular mechanism that results in Charcot Marie Tooth (CMT) disease,…
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Genetic mechanism for ALS is uncovered
July 29, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Researchers have found a missing link that helps to explain how ALS paralyses and ultimately kills its victims. The breakthrough is helping them trace a path to a treatment or even a cure. “ALS research has been…
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$2M funding supports in two major health challenges
July 29, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The University of Toronto’s research funding program – the Connaught Fund – broke the mould this year with its $1 million Global Challenge Prize, awarding two projects instead of the usual one. Projects led by two Faculty…
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NRC’s IT system suffers cyber attack
July 29, 2014 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has suffered a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure, and the organization says it might take up to a year to create a new secure infrastructure. In a related statement,…
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$1.2M awarded to Crohn’s and colitis researchers
July 29, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Crohn’s and Colitis Canada has awarded four research grants, totalling $1,229,750, to researchers across Ontario. The grants will support a number of research projects relating to Crohn’s and colitis, known collectively as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Drs.…
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Innovation council to guide Alberta’s research and development
July 29, 2014 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Alberta’s government has inaugurated a new Alberta Innovation Council that is charged with the task of guiding the province’s research and development. It says the council will act as a “system architect”, providing vital oversight and advice…
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$2.1M translational chair in cancer appointed
July 29, 2014 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Lynne Postovit, PhD, has received an AIHS Translational Health Chair in Cancer from Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions (AIHS). She will receive approximately $2.1 million for the seven-year research program. Dr. Postovit is a newly appointed associate…
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Waters acquires REIMS technology
July 22, 2014 by Lab Canada Milford, MA – Waters Corporation says it has acquired rapid evaporative ionization mass spectrometry (REIMS) technology from MediMass. The REIMS technology represents substantially all of the assets of MediMass and includes patent applications, software, databases and REIMS expertise. “While showing…
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New light shed on biology underlying schizophrenia
July 22, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – As part of a multinational, collaborative effort, researchers from Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have helped identify over 100 locations in the human genome associated with the risk of developing schizophrenia, in what is…
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International dark matter experiment coming to SNOLAB
July 21, 2014 by Lab Canada Sudbury, ON – The SuperCDMS experiment is coming to the SNOLAB underground science facility. The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search is an international, multimillion-dollar dark matter experiment currently based in Minnesota with plans to progress the project by building a…
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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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Potential anti-cancer agent focus of study
July 21, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The path of discovery to developing a potential anti-cancer agent by a team led by Dr. Tak Mak has been published in the journal Cancer Cell. “What began with the question ‘what makes a particular aggressive form…
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Global warming pause reflects natural fluctuation
July 21, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Statistical analysis of average global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 shows that the slowdown in global warming during this period is consistent with natural variations in temperature, according to research by McGill University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy.…
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Study discovers genetic variant that protects against Alzheimer’s disease
July 21, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Judes Poirier, PhD, C.Q., from the Douglas Mental Health Institute and McGill University in Montreal, and his team have discovered that a relatively frequent genetic variant actually conveys significant protection against the common form of Alzheimer’s disease…
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$1M funding supports honeybee health surveillance study
July 21, 2014 by Lab Canada McLennan, AB – A four-year-nationwide surveillance project to document the health profile of honey bee colonies in Canada is being supported with funding of $1 million from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The funding is being provided to the Beekeepers Commission…
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