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Extracting stem cells from fat for tissue regeneration
May 2, 2011 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – A team of reseachers at Queen’s University are working on methods to grow mature tissue substitutes from stem cells that have been extracted from human fat samples. Stem cells extracted from body fat may pave the way…
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$1.7M supports heart and stroke research
April 21, 2011 by Lab Canada London, ON – Researchers at the University of Western Ontario (Western) and Lawson Health Research Institute Health have received a $1.7 million boost from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. In total, ten scientists received funding for projects aimed…
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$400k fund launched to spark new genomics research ideas
April 18, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) has launched a new $400,000 fund for high-impact, high-risk technology development research projects in genomics. The SPARK program will provide four awards of up to $50,000 annually over the next two-years to…
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Biologics research facility receives nearly $1M in funding
April 11, 2011 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) has received $900,000 in funding from Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) to establish a Biologics Division at its research facilities located at the University of British Columbia. The CDRD…
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Antioxidants protect DNA from damage following radiation exposure
April 11, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A recent study by Dr Kieran J Murphy at the University Health Network found that a unique formulation of antioxidants administered to patients prior to subjecting them to imaging techniques involving radiation decreased the damaging effects of…
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Centre for Regenerative Medicine opens at Toronto’s Mount Sinai
April 4, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital celebrated the official opening last week of a new Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Musculoskeletal Research. “Through their investigations into the biology of stem cells and the mechanisms…
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CSMLS campaign goes viral on YouTube
April 4, 2011 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – A commercial created by the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science (CSMLS) to raise public awareness about the importance of laboratory testing has been posted on YouTube in an effort to reach 25,000 views so that it…
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Researchers create organic, non-toxic nanoparticle
April 4, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A team of Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) scientists have created an organic nanoparticle that is completely non-toxic, biodegradable and nimble in the way it uses light and heat to treat cancer and deliver drugs. The findings, published…
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Genomic research projects receive $60M in funding
March 28, 2011 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Genome Canada has announced a total of $60 million in funding for 16 genome-research projects across the country. Each of the projects will focus on important questions and challenges faced in their respective sector and involve end-users…
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Study shows risk of prion disease from urine-derived fertility products
March 25, 2011 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Women who are injected with urine-derived fertility products may be at risk of developing prion disease, according to a just-released study by an international research team from Canada, France and the United States. The study, published in…
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$16M funding supports nanomedicine research
March 21, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Seven new research projects on regenerative medicine and nanomedicine have received $16 million in funding. The studies are being co-funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), “CIHR is delighted…
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Funding supports Qubec-China research project into the causes of male infertility
March 21, 2011 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – The Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ), Génome Québec and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) have announced the funding of a first project as part of their joint program for research…
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New program supports development of anti-cancer technologies
March 21, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) says it has enhanced its Intellectual Property Development and Commercialization program (IPDC), now called the IPDC Fund. The augmented program is designed to provide broader and deeper support for promising…
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Biotech company gets funding to develop diagnostic kits
March 3, 2011 by Lab Canada Thorold, ON, – Canadian biotechnology company Norgen Biotek says it has received funding of over $800,000 from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). The company focuses primarily on advancing tools for nucleic acids (NA) and…
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Scientists discover first breast cancer oncogene in five years
February 28, 2011 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Scientists have pinpointed a key cancer-causing gene that, when overactive, triggers a particularly aggressive type of breast cancer to develop. This is the first time in over five years that scientists have discovered a new breast cancer…
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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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Fathers of stem cell research honoured on 50th anniversary of groundbreaking discovery
February 6, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Fifty years ago, two young, unknown scientists at the fledgling Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI) published accidental findings that proved the existence of stem cells – cells that can self-renew repeatedly for different uses. Today, acclaimed the world…
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VWR International acquires Amresco
February 6, 2011 by Lab Canada Radnor, Pa – Laboratory supplies and services company VWR International says it has acquired Amresco, a manufacturer and supplier of biochemicals and reagents for molecular biology, life sciences, proteomics, clinical and histology research and production. “We welcome the addition of…
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$5M funding supports improved isotope production at CHUS
January 28, 2011 by Lab Canada Sherbrooke, QC – The Centre de recherche clinique Étienne – Le Bel (CRCELB) of the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) says it will receive $5 million in funding out of an $11 million project headed up by Advanced Cyclotron…
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Brain institute appoints new head
January 28, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The board of the recently launched Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) has appointed Dr Donald Stuss as president and scientific director (interim). Dr Stuss, university professor in psychology, neurology and rehabilitation science at the University of Toronto, comes…
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New GE Pathology Imaging Centre Of Excellence comes to Ontario
January 26, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Health Technology Exchange (HTX) has announced an agreement to establish GE’s first global Pathology Imaging Centre of Excellence in Toronto. GE Healthcare and its digital pathology joint venture, OmnyxTM, will provide $7.75M along with a $2.25M…
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$3.5M supports chronic-disease research in Quebec
January 26, 2011 by Lab Canada Quebec City, QC – The Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ), in partnership with the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS) and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer Canada, have announced the first series of projects…
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$1M grant to address parasitic diseases in the developing world
January 26, 2011 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – McGill University and McGill University scientist Dr Timothy Geary has been awarded a $1-million grant for research into addressing parasitic diseases through medicines derived from African biodiversity. The $1-million award is collaboration among three funders: $500,000 from…
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Diagnostic test being developed to measure clumped protein fragments in human cerebral spinal fluid
January 24, 2011 by Lab Canada Mississauga, ON – Amorfix Life Sciences says it has developed a new diagnostic test that is able to measure clumped protein fragments, called aggregated beta amyloid, in human cerebral spinal fluid which may indicate the presence of Alzheimer’s disease and…
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Switch off enzyme to control chronic pain, say researchers
January 18, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has developed a new drug targeted at parts of the brain and spinal cord associated with pain perception, which may more effectively control chronic pain caused by nerve…
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Researchers prolong worms’ life with banned herbicide
January 10, 2011 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – It sounds like science fiction – Dr Siegfried Hekimi and his student Dr Wen Yang, researchers at McGill’s Department of Biology, tested the current “free radical theory of aging” by creating mutant worms that had increased production…
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Collaboration to focus on chronic disease risk factors
January 10, 2011 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – The National Research Council (NRC) and Dalhousie University have announced a collaborative research project to decode the risk factors that make people more or less susceptible to cancer, cardiovascular and other chronic diseases. The two-year pilot study…
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Alzheimer’s test detects aggregated beta amyloid in human CSF
January 10, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Amorfix Life Sciences, a product development company focused on diagnostics and therapeutics for misfolded protein diseases, has announced preliminary results indicating that their human Alzheimer’s disease (AD) diagnostic assay can detect a signal from aggregated beta amyloid…
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Scientists propose new international cancer effort akin to Human Genome Project
January 7, 2011 by Lab Canada Madrid, Spain – Scientists are proposing an international effort, on the scale of the Human Genome Project (HGP), to identify all the proteins present in cancer cells. HGP was the international scientific research project that identified and mapped all the…
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Genome research project receives $324,000 in funding
December 23, 2010 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Two Vancouver researchers are tackling the deadliest forms of prostate cancer, the most commonly diagnosed male cancer in Canada, using a brand new field of genomics called computational chemogenomics. This new approach uses computer modeling in virtual…
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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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