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April 18, 2012
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Vancouver, BC – Scientists at the BC Cancer Agency and University of British Columbia have identified new breast cancer genes that could change the way the disease is diagnosed and form the basis of next-generation treatments. Researchers have reclassified the…
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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
April 2, 2012
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Vancouver, BC – While stimulants may improve unengaged workers’ performance, a new University of British Columbia study suggests that for others, caffeine and amphetamines can have the opposite effect, causing workers with higher motivation levels to slack off. The…
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April 2, 2012
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Toronto, ON – A chemistry team at the University of Toronto has discovered environmentally friendly iron-based nanoparticle catalysts that work as well as the expensive, toxic, metal-based catalysts that are currently in wide use by the drug, fragrance and food…
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LaboratoryLife SciencesNew Technology & ApplicationsResearch Results
March 20, 2012
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LaboratoryResearch Results
February 23, 2012
by Lab Canada
Halifax, NS – With expanded industrial-scale production of nanomaterials fast approaching, scientists are reporting indications that dust generated during processing of nanomaterials may explode more easily than dust from wheat flour, cornstarch and most other common dust explosion hazards. Their…
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LaboratoryResearch Results
February 6, 2012
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Vancouver, BC – University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers have discovered the molecular pathway that enables receptors inside immune cells to find, and flag, fragments of pathogens trying to invade a host. The discovery of the role played by the…
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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
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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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
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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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
December 22, 2011
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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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ChemistryGeneral Science & ResearchLaboratoryResearch Results
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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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
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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LaboratoryNew Technology & ApplicationsResearch Results
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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LaboratoryResearch Results
December 12, 2011
by Lab Canada
St John’s, NF – Researchers at Memorial University have developed a novel technique that will help prevent occupational allergy and asthma in seafood processing workers. Dr Anas Abdel Rahman, a former doctoral student of chemistry at the university, and his…
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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
December 8, 2011
by Lab Canada
Toronto, ON – The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute’s Drs Frank Sicheri, Tony Pawson and Sebastian Guettler, in collaboration with Dr Robert Rottapel at the Ontario Cancer Institute, have uncovered the detailed architecture of a crucial component of Tankyrase, a protein…
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BiologyLaboratoryResearch Results
December 5, 2011
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Vancouver, BC – Iconic marine predators such as sharks, tunas, swordfish, and marlins are becoming increasingly rare under current fishing trends, say University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers. In half of the North Atlantic and North Pacific waters under national…
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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
December 5, 2011
by Lab Canada
Kingston, ON – Researchers have identified the area of the brain that controls our ability to correct our movement after we’ve been hit or bumped – a finding that may have implications for understanding why subjects with stroke often have…
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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
December 5, 2011
by Lab Canada
Montreal, QC – In an article published December 1 in the journal Science, a team of researchers led by Dr Alexander Prat and postgraduate fellow Jorge Alvarez at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) sheds light on how…
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LaboratoryResearch Results
November 28, 2011
by Lab Canada
Montreal, QC – Researchers led by Prof Sébastien Sauvé of the University of Montreal’s Department of Chemistry have discovered that traces of caffeine are a useful indicator of the contamination of our water by sewers. “E coli bacteria is commonly…
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BiologyLaboratoryResearch Results
November 28, 2011
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Montreal, QC – Generalist feeders like foxes and raccoons may be crucial to sustaining biological diversity, according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). McGill University biology researchers have developed…
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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
November 28, 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 the November 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American…
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BiologyLaboratoryResearch Results
November 28, 2011
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London, ON – An international consortium led by a researcher at the University of Western Ontario has unveiled the first genome of the second-largest group of animals on Earth: Chelicerates. Dr Miodrag Grbic, associate professor with Western’s Department of Biology,…
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LaboratoryMaterials ScienceResearch Results
November 21, 2011
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Toronto, ON – Engineering researchers at the University of Toronto have developed what they say is the world’s most efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) on plastic. This result enables a flexible form factor, as well as a less costly, alternative to…
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LaboratoryResearch Results
November 18, 2011
by Lab Canada
Calgary, AB – It’s well known that Earth’s most severe mass extinction occurred about 250 million years ago. What’s not well known is the specific time when the extinctions occurred. A team of researchers from North America and China have…
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LaboratoryResearch Results
October 31, 2011
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Halifax, NS – Scientists at Dalhousie University have identified a key mechanism of metastasis that could lead to blocking tumour growth if their findings are confirmed. In the November 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer…
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LaboratoryResearch Results
October 17, 2011
by Lab Canada
Ottawa, ON – A revolutionary experiment conducted by the University of Ottawa and the National Research Council of Canada’s Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory (JASLab) to solve the mystery of how electrons move in a chemical reaction has been published in…
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LaboratoryResearch Results
October 14, 2011
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Hamilton, ON – The recent Listeria and E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks associated with cantalope and raw beef in North America reveals that the current available methods and procedures for food safety are lacking to achieve full control of these deadly…
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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
October 12, 2011
by Lab Canada
Hamilton, ON – An international team – led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany – has sequenced the entire genome of the Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human history. This…
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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
October 12, 2011
by Lab Canada
Toronto, ON – GeneNews Limited, a company focused on developing blood-based biomarker tests for the early detection of diseases and personalized health management, says it has published a study data using its own platform technology to identify complex changes in…
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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
October 3, 2011
by Lab Canada
Vancouver, BC – Molecular research company Kinexus Bioinformatics has published the results of a major study to investigate the host signalling pathways impacted by Salmonella enterica. The study, which was undertaken in collaboration with researchers at the Centre for High…
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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
September 23, 2011
by Lab Canada
Toronto, ON – In a new study led by the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), scientists identified two distinct genes that may help better understand a vital component of the mitochondria, or power plants of the cell: the assembly of…
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LaboratoryLife SciencesResearch Results
September 20, 2011
by Lab Canada
Vancouver, BC – A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have found a key link between prions and the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s…
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LaboratoryNew Technology & ApplicationsResearch Results
September 19, 2011
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Toronto, ON – Researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T), King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) and Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) have created the most efficient colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cell ever. The discovery…