Local News Mom and Baby Share “Good Bacteria” through Breast Milk UBC News | July 15, 2020 A new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University of…eabramovichJuly 15, 2020 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards SFU Faculty of Health Sciences PhD Student Successful in CIHR Doctoral Competition SFU Faculty of Health Sciences | July 15, 2020 Aniqa Shahid, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), has been successful…eabramovichJuly 15, 2020 Read More
Local News Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccines During the Pandemic Poses Challenges BC Children's Hospital Research Institute | July 14, 2020 With more than 140 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development, the race is on for a successful…eabramovichJuly 14, 2020 Read More
Local News Zymeworks Announces New Multispecific Antibody Collaboration with Merck LifeSciences BC | July 14, 2020 Zymeworks Inc. (NYSE: ZYME), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing multifunctional biotherapeutics, today announced that it…eabramovichJuly 14, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Improved Structural Variant Interpretation for Hereditary Cancer Susceptibility Using Long-Read Sequencing Thibodeau, M.L., et al. | July 13, 2020 The researchers employed the Oxford Nanopore PromethION long-read sequencer to re-sequence and analyze the genomes…eabramovichJuly 13, 2020 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards SBME Student Justin Yu Wins the SB3C Master’s Student Paper Competition UBC School of Biomedical Engineering | July 13, 2020 Growth and evolution lead in a world that’s built on change. This is a guiding…eabramovichJuly 13, 2020 Read More
Local News entrepreneurship@UBC Lab2Launch Venture Building Program LifeSciences BC | July 13, 2020 entrepreneurship@UBC’s Lab2Launch venture building program is for UBC researchers and scientists who are focusing on the…eabramovichJuly 13, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week AAV8 Ins1-Cre Can Produce Efficient β-Cell Recombination but Requires Consideration of Off-Target Effects Ramzy, A., et al. | July 10, 2020 The Cre-LoxP system, which uses a tool borrowed from viruses, is the most prevalent technology…eabramovichJuly 10, 2020 Read More
Local News Supergenes Play a Larger Role in Evolution Than Previously Thought Genome BC | July 9, 2020 Massive blocks of genes—inherited together ‘plug and play’ style—may play a larger role in evolutionary…eabramovichJuly 9, 2020 Read More
Local News Gene Expression Networks Flag Potential Therapeutic Targets for SARS-CoV-2 News-Medical.Net | July 9, 2020 An international team of researchers from Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and the United States has…eabramovichJuly 9, 2020 Read More