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Forest genomics drives partnership between Laval and Oxford universities
January 21, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – A partnership the create an international consortium in forest genomics has been formed between Université Laval and Oxford University. The partnership was announced by Marc LePage, president and CEO of Génome Québec. Spearheaded by Professor John MacKay,…
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Food science conference coming to Pittcon 2015
January 14, 2015 by Lab Canada Pittsburgh, PA – The Pittcon Organizing Committee says that the third annual Food Labs Conference – the only food conference focused on the food laboratory – will be held in conjunction with Pittcon 2015, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The co-location…
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Collaboration to advance cardiac, diabetes and depression technologies
January 13, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – MaRS Innovation has formed a research collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation and its Canadian affiliate, Janssen Inc., to advance technologies focused on cardiac, diabetes and depression through three projects. The projects’ principal investigators are researchers from…
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Chalk River nuclear science lab gets $55M upgrade
January 13, 2015 by Lab Canada Chalk River, ON – A $55-million upgrade in the nuclear science and technology capacity at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), a subsidiary of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, was recently completed. The project involved renovating and equipping the CNL’s Hydrogen Isotopes…
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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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What’s killing the world’s scallops and oysters?
January 13, 2015 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Many scallops are not even growing to be fully-sized, as higher ocean acidity and other potential problems kill them when they are only seedlings. Farmed scallops and oysters are dying at devastating rates worldwide and an interdisciplinary…
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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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Cyclotron shown as reliable source of medical isotopes
January 8, 2015 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Scientists at University of British Columbia have demonstrated that small cyclotrons – particle accelerators the size of an SUV – can replace hulking nuclear power plants as the country’s main source of medical isotopes. The demonstration last…
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Nanowire clothing could keep people warm
January 7, 2015 by Lab Canada Stanford, CA – To stay warm when temperatures drop outside, we heat our indoor spaces – even when no-one is in them. But scientists have now developed a novel nanowire coating for clothes that can both generate heat and trap…
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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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$1.5B research fund launches inaugural competition
December 30, 2014 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The federal government has officially launched the inaugural competition of the new Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). Announced as part of the government’s budget this year, the fund will provide $1.5 billion over 10 years to…
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New scientific director general appointed to National Public Health Laboratories
December 30, 2014 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON -The Public Health Agency of Canada has appointed Dr. Matthew Gilmour as the new scientific director general of the National Public Health Laboratories. He succeeds Dr. Frank Plummer, who retired earlier this year. Dr. Gilmour will be responsible…
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Arthur Slutsky awarded researcher of year by CIHR
December 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Dr. Arthur S. Slutsky, vice-president of research at the St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, has received the 2014 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Health Researcher of the Year award for his outstanding efforts to advance pulmonary…
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Two thousand technical presentations coming to Pittcon
December 11, 2014 by Lab Canada Pittsburgh, PA – Over 2,000 technical presentations are scheduled at Pittcon 2015, covering a wide range of applications such as biotechnology, biomedical, drug discovery, environmental, food science, fuels/energy, genomics, lab management, materials science, nanotechnology, polymers/plastics, proteomics and water/wastewater. Attendees can…
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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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$50M partnership to strengthen health research in Newfoundland and Labrador
December 3, 2014 by Lab Canada St John’s, NL – Memorial University will receive $50 million over the next five years to support a wide-ranging health-care initiative that will provide enhanced, personalized patient care through collaborative, multidisciplinary research. Less than 20 percent of applied medical research…
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New lab to research plant-based medicines
December 2, 2014 by Lab Canada Burnaby, BC – A new laboratory to research plant-based medicines such as ginseng, hawthorn and elderberry at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) was awarded provincial funding of $368,000. The research infrastructure project at BCIT was awarded the money…
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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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Cutting-edge severe weather forecasting technology to be developed
December 2, 2014 by Lab Canada Québec City, QC – The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the National Optics Institute (INO) have formed a partnership to improve forecasting of severe weather events. As part of the partnership, the CSA is awarding a contract worth $650,000 to…
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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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