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H. pylori vaccine the target of $575,000 collaboration
January 29, 2015 by Lab Canada Sudbury, ON – In a two-year, $575,000 agreement, researchers at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), the Advanced Medical Research Institute of Canada (AMRIC) and Lilly Creek Vaccines are collaborating to develop a Helicobacter pylori vaccine. Under the agreement,…
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Fluorescent colour-changing proteins reveal inner workings of live cells
January 28, 2015 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – The detection and imaging of protein-protein interactions in live cells has become much more colourful, thanks to a new technology developed by University of Alberta chemist Robert Campbell and his team. Campbell has created a new method…
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Study sheds light on sodium and blood pressure link
January 27, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – An international research team led by scientists at McGill University has found that excessive salt intake ‘reprograms’ the brain, interfering with a natural safety mechanism that normally prevents the body’s arterial blood pressure from rising. While the…
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$19.5M renews neurodevelopmental disorders research network
January 22, 2015 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – NeuroDevNet, a Vancouver-based national network is being renewed for five years with funding of $19.6 million from the federal government. The funding supports collaborative research into pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders, specifically autism, cerebral palsy and fetal alcohol spectrum…
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$22M supports research into inflammatory diseases
January 13, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Nine projects are receiving a total of $21.9 million in funding over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and its partners – the Arthritis Society and Crohn’s and Colitis Canada. The projects will…
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Deep learning finds autism, cancer mutations in unexplored regions of the genome
January 13, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Scientists and engineers have built a computer model that has uncovered disease-causing mutations in large regions of the genome that previously could not be explored. Their method seeks out mutations that cause changes in ‘gene splicing,’ and…
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Most types of cancer not due to ‘bad luck’
January 13, 2015 by Lab Canada Lyon, France – The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization’s specialized cancer agency, has issued a statement to say it strongly disagrees with the conclusion of a scientific report1 on the causes of human cancer…
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$26.3M awarded for research in arrhythmia
January 13, 2015 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Canadian Arrhythmia Network (CANet) is receive a total of $26.3 million over five years from the federal government to collaborate on research aimed at reducing premature deaths and suffering caused by heart rhythm disturbances. The study…
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Breathing in diesel exhaust leads to changes in DNA
January 8, 2015 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Just two hours of exposure to diesel exhaust fumes can lead to fundamental health-related changes in biology by switching some genes on, while switching others off, according to researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver…
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Survey highlights challenges to reproducible science for translational researchers
January 5, 2015 by Lab Canada St. Louis, MO – Sigma-AldrichCorporation has issued its second annual ‘State of Translational Research Survey Report’, addressing challenges to the reproducibility of research within the academic translational research community. The report, based on a survey conducted in concert with the…
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$60M national initiative for innovative cancer treatments
December 30, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – The BC Cancer Agency researchers will play a key role in the first Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) devoted to cancer research, announced this month with a $25 million commitment from the federal government and an…
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Canadians lead international team developing novel vaccines
December 30, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Dalton Pharma Services, a privately owned pharmaceutical services provider, says it has been awarded funding from ISTPCanada as part of an international vaccine development project under the 2013 Canada-China Joint Initiative on Human Vaccine Research and Development program.…
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Major private-academic partnership in biotech venture
December 10, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A new biotech company, Northern Biologics, has been officially unveiled by biotechnology incubator Blueline Bioscience in partnership with the University of Toronto (U of T) and University Health Network’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (UHN). The company will…
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Suppressing hormone could help reduce obesity
December 9, 2014 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – Researchers from McMaster have identified an important hormone that is elevated in obese people and contributes to obesity and diabetes by inhibiting brown fat activity. Brown adipose tissue — widely known as ‘brown fat’ — is located…
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Researchers identify protein that controls the genome ‘guardian’
December 9, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – A new study published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) sheds new light on a well-known mechanism required for the immune response. Researchers at the…
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Obesity may shorten life expectancy up to 8 years
December 9, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – A new study led by investigators at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University. The researchers examined the relationship between body weight and life expectancy. Their findings show that overweight and…
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New institute to study regenerative medicine
December 3, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A new institute has been set up in Ontario to study the diseases of aging, and at the same time the first three awards being funded under the new institute have been announced, with a total of…
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Internationally significant discovery maps evolution of breast cancer
December 2, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – A paper in the journal Nature highlights how researchers at the BC Cancer Agency are using human breast cancer ‘avatars’ – models of human breast cancers – to measure how complex cancers develop and change over time.…
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Advanced research in Northern Ontario gets funding boost
December 2, 2014 by Lab Canada Thunder Bay, ON – Two research institutes in Thunder Bay are receiving a total of $900,000 in funding from the province’s Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC). The projects will allow the institutes to purchase equipment and hire extra staff…
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Biomedical research to grow with opening of $1.5M zebrafish lab
December 2, 2014 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – Dalhousie Medical School recently celebrated the opening of a new lab: the Zebrafish Core Facility. Housed in the university’s Life Sciences Research Institute (LSRI), the $1.5 million facility is one of the largest of its kind in…
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$7M supports Alzheimer’s research
November 25, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – In December 2013 four organizations came together to develop the British Columbia Alzheimer’s Research Award Program. Brain Canada, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR), Genome British Columbia (Genome BC), and The Pacific Alzheimer Research Foundation…
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Study identifies new player in brain function and memory
November 25, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Is it possible to change the amount of information the brain can store? Perhaps, according to a new international study led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC). The research has identified a…
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Discovery blocks vicious cycle of inflammation and tumour growth
November 25, 2014 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – A team of researchers from the University of Alberta has discovered a new approach to fighting breast and thyroid cancers by targeting an enzyme they say is the culprit for the vicious cycle of tumour growth, spread…
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$5M for study to investigate vomiting, diarrhea in children
November 25, 2014 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – A new research team in Alberta is receiving $5M from the province’s government to study severe intestinal infections. The research team, called the Alberta Provincial Pediatric Enteric Infection Team (APPETITE), will bring together clinicians and scientists to…
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New cancer genes predicted by human interactome map
November 25, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Scientists have created the largest-scale map to date of direct interactions between proteins encoded by the human genome and newly predicted dozens of genes to be involved in cancer. The new human interactome map describes about 14,000…
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Canadian researchers confront Ebola
November 21, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Leading researchers from across the country came together last week to discuss Ebola treatment and action. The meeting – organized by the Neglected Global Diseases Initiative at University of British Columbia (NGDI-UBC), in partnership with the Vancouver…
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Fecal transplant technique reaps benefits in treating IBD: study
November 21, 2014 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Dina Kao, a gastroentologist at the University of Alberta Hospital and an associate professor in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry’s Department of Medicine, is one of a handful of people in Canada, and just two in…
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Historic $130M gift establishes new heart research centre
November 20, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), University Health Network (UHN) and the University of Toronto (U of T) announced today the creation of the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research (the Centre) funded by a donation of…
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Canada begins Ebola vaccine trial
November 20, 2014 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) has launched a Phase I clinical trial for Canada’s Ebola vaccine (VSV-EBOV). The clinical trial will take place in Halifax. Jointly funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and…
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CSMLS to help foreign trained lab professionals find work
November 20, 2014 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – The Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science (CSMLS) says it has completed research aimed at helping foreign trained medical lab professionals find meaningful employment in cases where successfully attaining a license to practice in Canada is unlikely…
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New test better personalizes treatment for prostate cancer
November 19, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Researchers at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and University Health Network (UHN), have identified a new DNA-based test that could be used to better predict how prostate cancer patients will respond to treatment and to…
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