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Could Arctic bacteria point to life on Mars?
November 8, 2010 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Canadian microbiologists exploring a salty subzero Arctic spring have found bacteria that might be telling us something about life on Mars. The unexpected discovery of methane-consuming bacteria was made at the Lost Hammer Spring on Axel Heiberg…
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Tobacco and nicotine explored as a pesticide
November 4, 2010 by Lab Canada Tobacco, used on a small scale as a natural organic pesticide for hundreds of years, is getting new scientific attention as a potential mass-produced alternative to traditional commercial pesticides. That is the focus of a study by University of Western…
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Corporate R&D spending continues to fall
October 27, 2010 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Corporate spending on research and development (R&D) in Canada decreased again this year, according to Canada’s Top 100 Corporate R&D Spenders List 2010 released today by Research Infosource. Canada’s top corporate R&D companies spent $10.22 billion on…
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Researchers discover protein powering drug resistance in fungal infections
October 8, 2010 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Researchers at the University of Toronto have identified for the first time a protein which enables a deadly form of fungal infection to become drug resistant, opening up new treatment opportunities. In research published on August 26…
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Arctic soil study turns up surprising results
October 4, 2010 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – Across the globe, the diversity of plant and animal species generally increases from the North and South Poles towards the Equator but surprisingly that rule isn’t true for soil bacteria, according to a new study by Queen’s…
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Tofu ingredient yields formaldehyde-free glue for plywood
September 29, 2010 by Lab Canada Madison, WI – In a real-life “back to the future” story, scientists today reported that the sustainable, environmentally friendly process that gave birth to plywood a century ago is re-emerging as a “green” alternative to wood adhesives made from petroleum.…
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Study examines contract research as a source of funding
September 20, 2010 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A new study on research contracting in Canada has been released by The Impact Group, a science and technology policy consulting company. The study, called Knowledge Transfer Through Research Contracting, highlights the scale and scope of research…
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Exposure to stress puts brain on high alert
September 13, 2010 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – A Faculty of Medicine from the University of Calgary team, including Dr Jaideep Bains, an associate professor in the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and post-doctoral fellow Dr Brent Kuzmiski, is publishing an article in the October issue of…
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Trees soaking up less carbon than expected, study finds
August 30, 2010 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – Scientists and policy-makers hoping to use forests to naturally soak up increasing amounts of carbon dioxide may have overestimated the role of trees as carbon sinks, according to a new study by University of Guelph researchers. Contrary…
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Worldwide study identifies the genes that control cholesterol levels
August 30, 2010 by Lab Canada London, ON – A worldwide study involving the genetic testing of more than 100,000 people has identified the genes that control lipid levels, in particular: LDL (bad cholesterol), HDL (good cholesterol) and triglycerides. It found 95 genes associated with lipid…
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Scientists uncover important clues in the biology of stem cells
August 12, 2010 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Mount Sinai Hospital researchers, including Drs Andras Nagy and Jeff Wrana, have discovered new insights into the genesis of stem cells, which will improve the efficiency of stem cell creation for use in tissue regeneration and in…
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Jell-O lab-on-a-chip devices to spark interest in science careers
August 11, 2010 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – With “hands-on” experiences in childhood and adolescence having sparked so many science careers, scientists in Canada are describing a quick, simple, safe, and inexpensive way for kids to participate in making microfluidic devices. Those devices are at…
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Graphic results of supermassive black hole collisions
August 11, 2010 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Abdul Mroue and Harald Pfeiffer may soon be crashing together black holes on their desktops; they announced a major breakthrough recently at Canada’s largest supercomputing conference. The researchers at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the…
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Nano-sized advance toward next big treatment era in dentistry
August 6, 2010 by Lab Canada Los Angeles, CA – Scientists are reporting an advance toward the next big treatment revolution in dentistry – the era in which root canal therapy brings diseased teeth back to life, rather than leaving a “non-vital” or dead tooth in…
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Mercury levels grow in Lake Erie fish
August 5, 2010 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Mercury levels in a popular species of game fish in Lake Erie are increasing after two decades of steady decline, Ontario Ministry of Environment scientists are reporting. The study, the most comprehensive to date on mercury levels…
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Ottawa scientists first to watch a chemical bond break
July 30, 2010 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Scientists at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) enjoyed a bird’s eye view of a chemical bond as it breaks. The making and breaking of chemical bonds underlie the biochemical…
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First results from Large Hadron Collider announced
July 26, 2010 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A group of University of Toronto high-energy physicists, along with their 3,000 ATLAS colleagues, announced they have broken world records in the search for new particles as the first findings from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were…
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Antarctica traced from space
July 26, 2010 by Lab Canada Greenbelt, MD – Antarctica may not be the world’s largest landmass — it’s the fifth-largest continent — but resting on top of that land is the world’s largest ice sheet. That ice holds more than 60 percent of Earth’s fresh…
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Scientists discover 3.6 million-year-old relative of ‘Lucy’
June 21, 2010 by Lab Canada Cleveland, OH – Scientists from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, Addis Ababa University and Berkeley Geochronology Center were part of an international team that discovered and analyzed a 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton…
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Researchers use metal crystal to organize organic materials, overcoming key stumbling block
June 21, 2010 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Although they could revolutionize a wide range of high-tech products such as computer displays or solar cells, organic materials do not have the same ordered chemical composition as inorganic materials, preventing scientists from using them to their…
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Supercomputer helps telescope see echos from the big bang
June 18, 2010 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – An international collaboration of scientists has announced the first results of the ACT project, probing the early years of the universe. The announcement was made last week at the High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS2010) by Jonathan Sievers,…
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Scientists capture secret dance of electrons
June 14, 2010 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – Scientists have captured the first images of electrons that appear to take on extraordinary mass under certain extreme conditions, thus solving a 25-year mystery about how electrons behave in metals. The discovery could help with the design…
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Identification of the gene responsible for a new form of adult muscular dystrophy
January 25, 2010 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – A study published in the Jan 21 online edition the American Journal of Human Genetics, allowed the first identification of a new form of adult onset muscular dystrophy. The research team led by Dr Bernard Brais, neurogeneticist…
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High lead levels found on soup can reopen mystery of doomed Franklin Expedition
January 11, 2010 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – Lead levels that are “off the scale” have been confirmed after tests were done this morning on the lid of a soup can dating back more than 150 years. The findings reopen the mystery surrounding the cause…
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Electric field propels worms to test new drugs
January 5, 2010 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – A Nobel-winning process for testing new drugs to treat diseases such as Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, and muscular dystrophy is getting an electrical charge. Researchers at McMaster University have developed a way to propel and direct microscopic-sized worms (C…
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An inexpensive “dipstick” test for pesticides in foods
December 24, 2009 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – Scientists at McMaster University are reporting the development of a fast, inexpensive “dipstick” test to identify small amounts of pesticides that may exist in foods and beverages. Their paper-strip test is more practical than conventional pesticide tests,…
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Organisms turn microgears in suspended solution by swimming
December 24, 2009 by Lab Canada Argonne, Ill – Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University, Evanston, have discovered that common bacteria can turn microgears when suspended in a solution, providing insights for design of bio-inspired dynamically adaptive materials…
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University of Toronto physicists lay the groundwork for cooler, faster computing
December 15, 2009 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – University of Toronto quantum optics researchers Sajeev John and Xun Ma have discovered new behaviours of light within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that don’t overheat. “We discovered that…
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Study shows form of mercury in older dental fillings unlikely to be toxic
November 9, 2009 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – Amid the on-going controversy over the safety of mercury-containing dental fillings, a University of Saskatchewan (U of S) research team has shed new light on how the chemical forms of mercury at the surface of fillings change…
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Pumpkin skin may scare away germs
October 28, 2009 by Lab Canada The skin of pumpkins carved into Jack-o’-Lanterns to scare away ghosts and goblins on Hallowe’en contains a substance that could put a scare into microbes that cause millions of cases of yeast infections in adults and infants each year. That’s…
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BC scientists first in world to decode genetic evolution of a breast cancer tumour
October 8, 2009 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Scientists in British Columbia have, in a world first, decoded all of the three billion letters in the DNA sequence of a metastatic lobular breast cancer tumour. The scientists found all of the mutations that caused the…
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