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World’s largest annual laboratory science conference coming soon to Orlando
December 30, 2011 by Lab Canada Pittsburgh, PA – The annual Pittcon Conference & Exposition will be held in Orlando at the Orange County Convention Center March 11-15, 2012. Long known as the gathering place for top minds in science, this world-class conference attracts leaders in…
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Executives appointments at Quebec’s FRQS
December 30, 2011 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Claude Lazure, PhD has been appointed interim scientific director and Dr Michel Bureau has been appointed as an adviser to the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), effective January 2012. The appointments were recently announced…
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Bio-chemical futures
December 30, 2011 by Leslie Burt, Editor, Lab Product News Finland is home to one of Europe’s largest chemical industries, but the country is putting huge resources into R&D that will steer it away from a future dependent on fossil fuels. Here are some examples of innovation that are moving…
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Corning acquires Mediatech
December 30, 2011 by Lab Canada Corning, NY – Corning says it has completed the acquisition of Mediatech, a Virginia-based life sciences company, including its subsidiary, KD Medical. Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Corning, Mediatech will be integrated into Corning’s Life Sciences segment. The terms…
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A new take on the phase plate
December 30, 2011 by Lab Canada The idea of a microscope phase plate is not new – it was first developed and demonstrated for light microscopes around 1940 by Dutch scientist Frits Zernike, who was rewarded with a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his…
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Device automates routine analysis
December 30, 2011 by Teri Theoret, Marketing Manager, Canadawide Scientific In today’s busy laboratories, technical staff are often subjected to intense time and work pressures as they monitor multiple analysis systems and evaluate results simultaneously. The automation of daily analyses can represent an important opportunity for valuable time savings. The…
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Colour consistency in peanut butter
December 30, 2011 by Lab Canada Sunland, a maker of peanut products in New Mexico, needed to ensure consistency of colour in its peanut butter. An essential factor in the ultimate determination of the peanut butter’s final grade, colour accounts for twenty percent of the total…
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Quality control in the food lab
December 30, 2011 by Lab Canada Instituting quality control programs in food labs ultimately yields safer food on the table. In this article, the Standards Council of Canada explains why acquiring accreditation has multiple benefits for labs. The testing of food products requires that everything be…
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Research shows stem cells relieve severe asthma
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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Plans unveiled for new complex chronic disease clinic
December 22, 2011 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – The BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre has announced it will be home to a new clinic that will address complex diseases including myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme disease and fibromyalgia. The new Complex Chronic Disease Clinic…
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Breast cancer and heart disease may have common roots
December 22, 2011 by Lab Canada 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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Research ethics committee receives full accreditation for protecting research participants
December 20, 2011 by Lab Canada Aurora, ON – Institutional Review Board Services (IRB Services) has been awarded full accreditation by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP). IRB Services is an unaffiliated Canadian-based research ethics committee. AAHRPP accreditation is available to…
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Steacie Prize awarded for nanotech-enabled disease diagnosis
December 19, 2011 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Professor Shana Kelley, of the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, is the winner of the 2011 Steacie Prize. “It’s wonderful and at the same time humbling to get this type of recognition – which…
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$1.6M for health research projects in Newfoundland
December 19, 2011 by Lab Canada St John’s, NL – Newfoundland’s Research & Development Corporation (RDC) is providing more than $1.6 million to support 14 health-related R&D projects at Memorial University’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science. In total, the funding, which totals $1,679,557 will…
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Ovarian cancer vaccine project among five to get funding
December 19, 2011 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Genome British Columbia is funding a team of scientists led by Dr Brad Nelson at BC Cancer Agency’s Deeley Research Centre in Victoria, who are exploring the possibility of using the inherent genomic instability of cancer to…
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CFI releases strategic road map and seeks community feedback
December 19, 2011 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) says it has adopted a road map that outlines a strategic direction of the CFI as it looks ahead at the changing needs of Canada’s research enterprise. The organization is now…
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Profitable 2011 for Canada’s chemical industry
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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Common blood protein promotes cancer growth
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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Video game players advance genetic research
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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Analytical method helps detect seafood allergens
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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Clinical nutrition the focus of new $3M research chair
December 12, 2011 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – Prof Adronie Verbrugghe has been named as the first holder of a new research chair at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College in its Department of Clinical Studies. The position, the Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Endowed…
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Saint-Hyacinthe biotech hub named best emerging research/science park
December 12, 2011 by Lab Canada Saint-Hyacinthe, QC – The City of Agrifood, Veterinary and Agroenvironment Biotechnology in Saint-Hyacinthe, QC has been named Best Emerging Research/Science Park Award during the Association of University Research Parks’ AURP 2011 Awards of Excellence. The award is presented each year…
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Researchers develop one of the world’s smallest electronic circuits
December 12, 2011 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – A team of scientists, led by Guillaume Gervais from McGill’s Physics Department and Mike Lilly from Sandia National Laboratories, has engineered one of the world’s smallest electronic circuits. It is formed by two wires separated by only…
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Researchers obtain structural snapshot for rare genetic disorder
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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Marine predators in trouble
December 5, 2011 by Lab Canada 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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Scientists discover how brain corrects bumps to body
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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New competition launches for 10 Canada Excellence Research Chairs
December 5, 2011 by Lab Canada Waterloo, ON – The federal government has announced the launch of a competition to fund 10 new Canada Excellence Research Chairs. The announcement was made by Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology). The Government of Canada recognizes the…
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R&D facility to be built as bio-energy demo plant
December 5, 2011 by Lab Canada Cornwall, PEI – Atlantec BioEnergy is creating a research and development demonstration facility in Prince Edward Island. The company was established to explore the feasibility of developing a commercially viable bio-refinery to produce advanced bio-energy from non- traditional feed stocks.…
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Research pinpoints protective mechanisms in multiple sclerosis
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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Company launches contract research firm
December 5, 2011 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Venture capital firm AmorChem Financial has announced the launch of a new medicinal chemistry contract research company called NuChem Therapeutics. NuChem Therapeutics has started operations at Montreal’s Biotechnology Research Institute. Dr Daniel Guay, formerly with Merck Canada…
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$3.2M grant supports green waste research
December 5, 2011 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – The NSERC/Total Industrial Research Chair in Hydrodynamic Modelling of Multiphase Processes at Extreme Conditions was recently launched at Polytechnique Montréal. The chair, with a five-year operating budget of $3.2 million, will investigate the potential for transforming domestic…
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