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$8.3M funding supports crops research
January 23, 2012 by Lab Canada Regina, SK – The Saskatchewan government has announced $8.3 million in crop-related research funding from the Saskatchewan Agriculture Development Fund (ADF), a funding amount the government says is a record. The funding is being awarded to 34 crop-related research projects.…
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Program to spur innovation in fibrosis research
January 23, 2012 by Lab Canada Chicago, IL & White Plains, NY – The Myeloproliferative Neoplasm (MPN) Research Foundation and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) have launched a new concept grant program called the MF Challenge. The program is seeking innovative approaches to reversing fibrosis…
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Medicago expanding pipeline with the development of rabies vaccine
January 23, 2012 by Lab Canada Quebec City, QC – Biotech company Medicago says it has completed initial studies towards the development of a new VLP vaccine candidate for rabies. Over the past 12 months, it says it has been working to expand the application of…
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New cancer research chair in New Brunswick
January 16, 2012 by Lab Canada Saint John, NB – Dr Anthony Reiman, a practising oncologist and researcher at the University of New Brunswick Saint John, has been named a Canadian Cancer Society Research Chair. Dr Reiman’s interest lies in involving patients in his research in…
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New dairy research facility to model sustainable animal agriculture
January 16, 2012 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – A new livestock research centre intended to model sustainable animal agriculture systems is being planned by the University of Guelph (U of G), the Ontario government and the Ontario dairy industry. The Research and Innovation Centre, Dairy…
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Connaught Fund announces Innovation Award, Summer Institute winners
January 16, 2012 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The University of Toronto’s Connaught Committee has announced the recipients of its 2011-12 Innovation Award and Summer Institute competitions, recognizing research excellence in projects as varied as plastic solar cells, ‘extreme’ astronomical devices to detect earth-like planets…
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New short courses at Pittcon to focus on compliance and regulatory standards
January 13, 2012 by Lab Canada Pittsburgh, PA – The Pittcon Organizing Committee has announced new courses for the 2012 Short Course Program which runs March 10 to 15, 2012 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. The short courses offer skill-building and career enhancing…
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Cyclotron delivered in Quebec
January 12, 2012 by Lab Canada Sherbrooke, QC – The Centre de recherche clinique Étienne – Le Bel at CHUS has received delivery of a cyclotron which it says is the first cyclotron TR24 in the world powerful enough to supply 50% of Quebec needs of…
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Dr Alan Bernstein named as new CIFAR president
January 11, 2012 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Dr Alan Bernstein has been appointed as president and CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, commencing May 1, 2012. “Alan is a visionary leader who has a wealth of experience guiding pioneering enterprises that conduct…
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Gene links rare and unrelated cancers
January 9, 2012 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – A team of scientists at the BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, and the University of British Columbia have found mutations in rare, seemingly unrelated cancers were all linked to the same gene, known as…
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European chemicals sector to slowly strengthen in 2012
January 9, 2012 by Lab Canada Brussels, Belgium – Growth in European chemicals output will be weaker than expected this year because of heightened business uncertainty and inventory trimming, industry group Cefic said in a recent report. However, the organization says it expects the sector to…
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Research facilities awarded technology seeding grants
January 9, 2012 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) has awarded two research facilities with $10,000 each to test or develop leading-edge technologies to better aid the work of Ontario researchers. The two recipients are The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG),…
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World’s largest annual laboratory science conference coming soon to Orlando
December 30, 2011 by Lab Canada Pittsburgh, PA – The annual Pittcon Conference & Exposition will be held in Orlando at the Orange County Convention Center March 11-15, 2012. Long known as the gathering place for top minds in science, this world-class conference attracts leaders in…
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Executives appointments at Quebec’s FRQS
December 30, 2011 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Claude Lazure, PhD has been appointed interim scientific director and Dr Michel Bureau has been appointed as an adviser to the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), effective January 2012. The appointments were recently announced…
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Bio-chemical futures
December 30, 2011 Leslie Burt, Editor, Lab Product News Finland is home to one of Europe’s largest chemical industries, but the country is putting huge resources into R&D that will steer it away from a future dependent on fossil fuels. Here are some examples of innovation that are moving…
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Corning acquires Mediatech
December 30, 2011 by Lab Canada Corning, NY – Corning says it has completed the acquisition of Mediatech, a Virginia-based life sciences company, including its subsidiary, KD Medical. Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Corning, Mediatech will be integrated into Corning’s Life Sciences segment. The terms…
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A new take on the phase plate
December 30, 2011 by Lab Canada The idea of a microscope phase plate is not new – it was first developed and demonstrated for light microscopes around 1940 by Dutch scientist Frits Zernike, who was rewarded with a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his…
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Device automates routine analysis
December 30, 2011 Teri Theoret, Marketing Manager, Canadawide Scientific In today’s busy laboratories, technical staff are often subjected to intense time and work pressures as they monitor multiple analysis systems and evaluate results simultaneously. The automation of daily analyses can represent an important opportunity for valuable time savings. The…
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Colour consistency in peanut butter
December 30, 2011 by Lab Canada Sunland, a maker of peanut products in New Mexico, needed to ensure consistency of colour in its peanut butter. An essential factor in the ultimate determination of the peanut butter’s final grade, colour accounts for twenty percent of the total…
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Quality control in the food lab
December 30, 2011 by Lab Canada Instituting quality control programs in food labs ultimately yields safer food on the table. In this article, the Standards Council of Canada explains why acquiring accreditation has multiple benefits for labs. The testing of food products requires that everything be…
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Research shows stem cells relieve severe asthma
December 22, 2011 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Clinical scientist Dr Bernard Thébaud and his research team have discovered that they can heal the lungs of mice with chronic and acute asthma. “Stem cells pump out healing juices which we gave to the mice via…
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Plans unveiled for new complex chronic disease clinic
December 22, 2011 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – The BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre has announced it will be home to a new clinic that will address complex diseases including myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme disease and fibromyalgia. The new Complex Chronic Disease Clinic…
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Breast cancer and heart disease may have common roots
December 22, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – New research from the University of Toronto and St Michael’s Hospital has found that women who are at risk for breast cancer may also be at greater risk for heart disease. The majority of women with hereditary…
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Research ethics committee receives full accreditation for protecting research participants
December 20, 2011 by Lab Canada Aurora, ON – Institutional Review Board Services (IRB Services) has been awarded full accreditation by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP). IRB Services is an unaffiliated Canadian-based research ethics committee. AAHRPP accreditation is available to…
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Steacie Prize awarded for nanotech-enabled disease diagnosis
December 19, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Professor Shana Kelley, of the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, is the winner of the 2011 Steacie Prize. “It’s wonderful and at the same time humbling to get this type of recognition – which…
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$1.6M for health research projects in Newfoundland
December 19, 2011 by Lab Canada St John’s, NL – Newfoundland’s Research & Development Corporation (RDC) is providing more than $1.6 million to support 14 health-related R&D projects at Memorial University’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science. In total, the funding, which totals $1,679,557 will…
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Ovarian cancer vaccine project among five to get funding
December 19, 2011 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Genome British Columbia is funding a team of scientists led by Dr Brad Nelson at BC Cancer Agency’s Deeley Research Centre in Victoria, who are exploring the possibility of using the inherent genomic instability of cancer to…
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CFI releases strategic road map and seeks community feedback
December 19, 2011 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) says it has adopted a road map that outlines a strategic direction of the CFI as it looks ahead at the changing needs of Canada’s research enterprise. The organization is now…
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Profitable 2011 for Canada’s chemical industry
December 12, 2011 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Canada’s chemistry sector showed strong growth and profits in 2011, according to a year-end report released last week by the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada. Sales of basic chemicals and resins totalled $25 billion in 2011 –…
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Common blood protein promotes cancer growth
December 12, 2011 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – Researchers at Dalhousie Medical School have identified a key mechanism of cancer metastasis that could lead to blocking tumour growth. The discovery was published in a recent issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association…
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Video game players advance genetic research
December 12, 2011 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Thousands of video game players have helped significantly advance understanding of the genetic basis of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, diabetes and cancer over the past year. They are the users of a web-based video game developed by…
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