Researchers have identified buried copper ore by testing the DNA of microbes in the surface…
karnottJuly 9, 2025
UBC Faculty of Medicine community members Allison Eddy, Lorraine Greaves and Bonnie Henry were recently…
karnottJuly 8, 2025
Knowledge of how traumatic brain injury (TBI) alters the brain is urgently needed. A major…
karnottJuly 8, 2025
Study Reveals That Sucrose May Not Reduce the Impact of Neonatal Pain Exposure on Long-Term Outcomes
Very preterm babies — infants born two to four months early — require specialized care.…
karnottJuly 7, 2025
Diffusion tensor imaging is a candidate biomarker in cerebrovascular disease. Yet, little is known about…
karnottJuly 7, 2025
Dr. Brett Finlay has been awarded the 2024 John McNeill Excellence in Health Research Mentorship…
karnottJuly 7, 2025
From a young age, Dr. Huawei Li found himself curious about biodevices and how they…
karnottJuly 4, 2025
his week we profile a recent publication in Current Biology from the lab of Dr.…
pthomsonJuly 19, 2021
As a potent autocrine regulator, the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin 6 (IL6) is expressed in granulosa…
pthomsonJuly 15, 2021
Although the role of glutamate in migraine pathogenesis remains uncertain, there has been significant interest…
pthomsonJuly 12, 2021
Most COVID-19 vaccines are designed to elicit immune responses, ideally neutralizing antibodies (NAbs), against the…
pthomsonJuly 8, 2021
Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in the American Journal of…
pthomsonJuly 6, 2021
The GPN proteins are a conserved family of GTP-binding proteins that are involved in the…
pthomsonJuly 5, 2021
Type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) were discovered approximately ten years ago and their clinical…
pthomsonJune 30, 2021
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adults, though the nature…
pthomsonJune 28, 2021
The British Columbia Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (BC NEIHR) - one of nine…
karnottNovember 13, 2024
Dedicated cancer researchers funded by the Terry Fox Research institute continue to push the limits,…
karnottNovember 13, 2024
Psychedelics, such as psilocybin and LSD, have gained attention as promising therapies for psychiatric disorders…
karnottNovember 12, 2024
It’s vaccination season, and scientists have been hard at work ensuring the latest vaccines are…
karnottNovember 11, 2024
Conducted in collaboration with members of the community, new research has linked an education program…
karnottNovember 8, 2024
Since our founding in 1999, the GSC has sequenced over 6,000,000,000,000,000 bases, sequenced the genomes…
karnottNovember 8, 2024
The leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide is postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). According to the World…
karnottNovember 6, 2024
Adverse drug reactions are a significant challenge in modern medicine, particularly in cancer treatment where…
karnottNovember 6, 2024
Dr. Laura Evgin (pictured), Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at UBC is…
sciencecityOctober 3, 2023
The UBC MATRIX-N (Multidisciplinary Alliance for Translational Research and Innovation in Neuropsychiatry) research excellence cluster…
sciencecitySeptember 28, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Zandstra for receiving the first ever Scientific Entrepreneurship Award from Life…
sciencecitySeptember 26, 2023
Michael Smith Health Research BC (MSHRBC) announced today that two Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS)…
sciencecitySeptember 26, 2023
Seven members of the UBC Faculty of Medicine are among 48 new Fellows elected into…
sciencecitySeptember 25, 2023
BC Cancer scientist Dr. Ly Vu was named one of Canada’s new Research Chairs in…
sciencecitySeptember 25, 2023
We extend our congratulations to this year’s 2023-2024 William and Dorothy Gilbert Scholarship recipients Kate…
sciencecitySeptember 22, 2023
Health research enables discovery breakthroughs in the mysteries of health, disease, and sickness, that ultimately…
sciencecitySeptember 22, 2023
