Topic
Laboratory
News
CollaborationsLaboratoryLife Sciences
$15 million funding boosts cancer trials collaboration
June 11, 2014 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – The NCIC Clinical Trials Group (CTG) at Queen’s University has been awarded $15 million in funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health through the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) to strengthen its work leading major cancer…
News
BiologyLaboratoryResearch Results
Habitat loss on breeding grounds cause of monarch decline
June 11, 2014 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – Habitat loss on breeding grounds in the United States – not on wintering grounds in Mexico – is the main cause of recent and projected population declines of migratory monarch butterflies in eastern North America, according to…
News
LaboratoryLife Sciences
Partnership strengthens drug development pipeline
June 11, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Canada’s national drug development and commercialization centre, the Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), says it has entered into a new affiliation agreement with the University of Manitoba. The agreement opens the door for the university’s…
News
LaboratoryMaterials ScienceResearch Results
New class of nanoparticle brings cheaper, lighter solar cells outdoors
June 11, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Researchers in the University of Toronto’s Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have designed and tested a new class of solar-sensitive nanoparticle that outshines the current state of the art employing this new…
News
General Science & ResearchLaboratory
Tobacco control scientist wins prestigious cancer research award
June 5, 2014 by Lab Canada Waterloo, ON – The Canadian Cancer Society is honouring a University of Waterloo scientist with one of its prestigious Awards for Excellence in Cancer Research. Dr David Hammond is the recipient of the William E. Rawls Prize for the remarkable…
News
LaboratoryLife Sciences
Newly launched $1M grant supports ALS research
June 5, 2014 by Lab Canada Markham, ON – ALS Canada has launched a $1 million grant, in efforts to accelerate a discovery for a therapeutic breakthrough for the terminal disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The grant, named after one…
News
LaboratoryResearch Results
Science tells when a sewage pipe needs repair, before it bursts
June 5, 2014 by Lab Canada Boulder, CO – Aging infrastructure – in particular sewer systems – is a topic most people would prefer to avoid, but broken pipes leaking raw sewage into streets and living rooms in many cities are forcing the issue. To better…
News
CommercializationLaboratory
$7M research chairs to turn science into enterprise
June 5, 2014 by Lab Canada Fredericton, NB – The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) has established the first three of six new applied research chairs valued at over $3,525,000 over five years. When complete, the organization says that over $7 million will be awarded for…
News
General Science & ResearchLaboratoryNew Facilities
Corrosion research the focus of $600K funding
June 5, 2014 by Lab Canada St John’s, NL – Newfoundland’s Research and Development Corporation says it is providing $598,000 to build research and development capacity and expertise in corrosion research, an area of significant interest for the oil and gas, marine shipping and other industries…
News
LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
Study turns free radical theory of aging on its head
May 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Many people believe that free radicals, the sometimes-toxic molecules produced by our bodies as we process oxygen, are the culprit behind aging. Yet a number of studies in recent years have produced evidence that the opposite may…
News
ChemistryLaboratoryLife Sciences
Vaccine developed by Canadian scientist approved for human trials
May 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – A vaccine invented at the University of Guelph to protect against Campylobacter jejuni – one of the leading bacterial causes of food-borne illness in the world – has just been approved for human clinical trials by the…
News
AgriculturalLaboratory
$2M supports soybean research
May 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – A University of Guelph scientist using genetics to improve Ontario’s most valuable crop has received nearly $2 million in government and industry support. Prof. Istvan Rajcan, Department of Plant Agriculture, was recently awarded a Collaborative Research and…
News
LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
Scientists find new way to mobilize immune system against viruses
May 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – University of British Columbia scientists have uncovered an intricate chain reaction in the body’s immune system and have used the knowledge to develop a new treatment against harmful viruses. Viral pandemics, such as the coronavirus that caused…
News
Academic ResearchGeneral Science & ResearchLaboratory
CAUT names new executive director
May 9, 2014 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has announced the appointment of David Robinson as its executive director, effective July 1, 2014. David Robinson is currently associate executive director of CAUT. Prior to joining CAUT, he was…
News
LaboratoryMaterials Science
Materials science research and development alliance formed
May 9, 2014 by Lab Canada Mississauga, ON and Columbus, OH – The Xerox Research Centre Canada (XRCC) and Battelle Memorial Institute have signed a strategic alliance to co-market and collaborate on materials science research services. The alliance will allow clients of XRCC and Battelle to…
News
LaboratoryLife Sciences
$3.7M funds Alzheimer’s research consortium and projects
May 9, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Pfizer Canada is providing $3.7 million in funding to support a consortium on the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease and six related projects. The funding is provided through the Pfizer-FRQS Innovation Fund for Alzheimer’s disease and related…
News
LaboratoryMaterials ScienceResearch Results
Unstable biological agents shipped/stored without refrigeration
May 6, 2014 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – In the past, officials wanting to test soil and groundwater for malathion—a widely used organophosphate pesticide that can lead to Alzheimer’s, ADHD, reduced IQ and death—had to carry the unstable agents needed to carry out the test…
News
BiologyLaboratoryResearch Results
Rare form of fat fuels flies while frozen
May 6, 2014 by Lab Canada Despite being the size of a fingernail and sharing the physical traits of a water balloon, the goldenrod gall fly is one of nature’s toughest creatures. It can live six months without eating or drinking and can survive freezing temperatures…
News
LaboratoryResearch Results
Biologists discover a key regulator in the pacemakers of our brain and heart
May 6, 2014 by Lab Canada Waterloo, ON – Biologists have discovered how an outer shield over T-type channels change the electrochemical signaling of heart and brain cells. Understanding how these shields work will help researchers eventually develop a new class of drugs for treating epilepsy,…
News
LaboratoryLife Sciences
$19M supports brain research projects
May 6, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC The Canada Brain Research Fund, the Brain Canada Foundation, the Azrieli Foundation and the Chagnon Foundation are all partnering to support five research projects aim to discover new treatment and prevention strategies to address Autism Spectrum Disorders, Fragile…
News
LaboratoryLife Sciences
IUMS 2014 makes call for late breaking abstracts
May 2, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – The International Congress of Microbiology (IUMS) says it has already accepted more than 2000 abstracts for the congress, which will take place from July 27 – August 1, 2014 in Montreal. Now congress organizers say that due…
News
LaboratoryLife Sciences
Big data software tools get $7.3M in development funding
April 30, 2014 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Current advanced technologies for genetic analysis have created almost unimaginable amounts of data, measured in petabytes – a million billion bytes. Genomic researchers are keen to analyze these data and identify genetic clues that could point to…
News
LaboratoryLife Sciences
$5M supports prostate cancer research projects
April 30, 2014 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Three major research teams in Edmonton, Toronto and Sherbrooke will receive close to $5 million for projects that will help prevent the overtreatment of prostate cancer. The funding initiative was announced by Prostate Cancer Canada, and is…
News
LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
Identification of genetic mutations involved in human blood diseases
April 29, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – A study published this week in Nature Genetics has revealed mutations that could have a major impact on the future diagnosis and treatment of many human diseases. Through an international collaboration, researchers at the Montreal Heart Institute…
News
LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
Mice and rats get stressed by male experimenters
April 29, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Scientists’ inability to replicate research findings using mice and rats has contributed to mounting concern over the reliability of such studies. Now, an international team of pain researchers led by scientists at McGill University in Montreal may…
News
General Science & ResearchLaboratory
$2.25M boosts cellulose filaments research
April 24, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – BC’s provincial government is providing $2.25 million to support FPInnovations’ cellulose filaments (CF) research. The project has received total funding so far of $43.1 million, including support from Natural Resources Canada, a grant from the Québec Ministry…
News
General Science & ResearchLaboratory
Deadline extension for award nominations at Pittcon 2015
April 22, 2014 by Lab Canada Pittsburgh, PA – The deadline for two of Pittcon 2015’s most prestigious awards – the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry and Pittsburgh Conference Achievement – has been extended to May 9, 2014.These annual awards will be presented during Pittcon 2015 which will…
News
LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
Listeria uses stealth for cell-to-cell spread, study finds
April 21, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Cloaked and armed with a weapon, Listeria monocytogenes bacterium invades the cells of its host during infection, where it can replicate. The bacterium then spreads from cell to cell by exploiting one of the bodies’ own defense…
News
LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
Researchers uncover ways to help cells survive after a stroke
April 21, 2014 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – A cellular energy production mechanism has been discovered by researchers from the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute. In the study findings, published in Nature Communications on April 1, the researchers say the discovery could…
News
ChemistryLaboratory
Researchers discover elusive cyanoformate ion
April 21, 2014 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – A team of Canadian and Finnish researchers are one step closer to understanding how nature uses carbon capture to tame poisons, due to the discovery of cyanoformate — a simple but fragile ion involved in the fruit-ripening…
News
LaboratoryLife Sciences
Canine cancer study aims at improving survival for humans and dogs
April 17, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A multidisciplinary University of Saskatchewan research team will treat dogs with drug-resistant lymphoma to uncover the reasons for this resistance and to identify ways to reverse it. Although scientists have identified the various processes involved in anticancer…
News
LaboratoryLife Sciences