The Ministry of Health and the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) have appointed a new…
sciencecityNovember 9, 2023
The significance of subclonal expression of p53 (abrupt transition from wild-type to mutant-pattern staining) is…
sciencecityNovember 8, 2023
Mitacs is pleased to welcome four celebrated leaders in Canadian innovation to join our esteemed…
sciencecityNovember 8, 2023
Children’s immature immune systems make them more susceptible to gut bacterial infections, and more and…
sciencecityNovember 7, 2023
The Faculty of Dentistry is proud to announce that Dr. Chris Overall has been honoured…
sciencecityNovember 6, 2023
The rising pancreatic cancer incidence due to obesity and type 2 diabetes is closely tied…
sciencecityNovember 6, 2023
Background People with Parkinson's disease can show premotor neurochemical changes in the dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic…
sciencecityApril 3, 2017
Background Clinical grading systems using clinical features alongside nomograms lack precision in guiding treatment decisions…
sciencecityMarch 27, 2017
ABSTRACT: Nonsense mutations underlie about 10% of rare genetic disease cases. They introduce a premature termination…
sciencecityMarch 20, 2017
ABSTRACT: A mild and selective photocatalytic C-H 18F-fluorination reaction has been developed that provides direct…
sciencecityMarch 13, 2017
ABSTRACT: CDC-like kinase phosphorylation of serine/arginine-rich proteins is central to RNA splicing reactions. Yet, the…
sciencecityMarch 8, 2017
ABSTRACT: G-quadruplex DNAs form four-stranded helical structures and are proposed to play key roles in different…
sciencecityFebruary 27, 2017
With so much news about the continued roller coaster of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is…
pthomsonJanuary 28, 2022
An international team led by a former UBC postdoctoral fellow in medical genetics has uncovered…
pthomsonJanuary 26, 2022
For the past three decades, myeloid malignancies such as myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid…
pthomsonJanuary 25, 2022
The health of the communities we live in relies on well functioning ecosystems that provide…
pthomsonJanuary 24, 2022
Dena Shahriari is an Assistant Professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering at UBC. Her research…
pthomsonJanuary 21, 2022
Research Infosource Inc., a Canadian R&D consulting firm, has released its annual ranking of Canada’s top…
pthomsonJanuary 20, 2022
Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq:XENE), a neurology-focused biopharmaceutical company, today announced that its collaboration to develop treatments…
pthomsonJanuary 20, 2022
Mohit Sodhi, a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine’s Experimental Medicine Program, has been awarded a Governor…
sciencecityMay 24, 2019
Seyed Amirhossein Nasseri, a PhD Student in the Withers Lab, Announced as a 2018–2019 Vanier Scholar
One of the biggest public health challenges we face today is antibiotic resistance. More medicine…
sciencecityMay 24, 2019
UBC researchers awarded a combined $42.6m in funding from NSERC through Discovery Grants, Research Tools…
sciencecityMay 23, 2019
Much is known about how HIV evolves and adapts to the human immune system during…
sciencecityMay 22, 2019
In Canada and other developed countries whooping cough – also known as pertussis – is…
sciencecityMay 21, 2019
A prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship has been awarded to Dr. Jonathon Briggs, who is currently working in…
sciencecityMay 20, 2019
Twenty-four doctoral students at UBC have received a Vanier Canada Graduate Fellowship, and three postdoctoral…
sciencecityMay 17, 2019
YWCA Metro Vancouver is pleased to announce the recipients of its 36th annual Women of…
sciencecityMay 16, 2019
