The holiday season is here, and as research begins to slow towards the end of the year, we too will be taking a short break to prepare for the year ahead. The Science in Vancouver website will be dark for the remainder of the holiday season, but will return as your source for local life science publications, news, and awards…
Spruce (gen. Picea) is a keystone tree, widespread in the boreal and mountain ecosystems of the Northern hemisphere. The species also play a fundamental role in the forest industry, a major contributor to the Canadian economy. Spruce genome sequences will help future conservation efforts in the face of climate change. Spruce giga-genomes: structurally similar yet distinctive with differentially expanding gene families and…
The holiday season is here, and as research begins to slow towards the end of the year, we too will be taking a short break to prepare for the year ahead. The Science in Vancouver website will be dark for the remainder of the holiday season, but will return as your source for local life science publications, news, and awards…
Today, entrepreneurship@UBC is excited to announce the unveiling of our Lab2Launch venture building program designed for UBC researchers and scientists who are focusing on the commercialization of a scientific or technological innovation which is unique, proprietary and difficult to reproduce. This program is the next evolution of entrepreneurship@UBC’s Life Science venture stream of the last 3 years, broadened to include…
The holiday season is upon us, and as research begins to slow towards the end of the year, we too will be taking a short break to prepare for the new year ahead. The Science in the City Vancouver website will be dark for the remainder of the holiday season, but will return as your source for local life science…
Surprisingly, despite our extensive knowledge of the chemical compounds found in nature, there has never been a comprehensive, open-source database for researchers to store information on the chemistry produced by bacteria and fungi. Until now. Simon Fraser University associate professor Roger Linington and a team of international collaborators have created the Natural Products Atlas, which holds information on nearly 25,000 natural…
Meet Dr. Kevin Heyries. He’s the Co-founder of AbCellera, a company focused on pushing the boundaries of biotech research and changing the way we treat diseases. He’s brilliant, insightful and he’s on the edge of one of the most important conversations in the world right now: What’s the future of the drugs our population will need, and how will we…
The holiday season is upon us, and as research begins to slow towards the end of the year, we too will be taking a short break to prepare for the new year ahead. The Science in the City Vancouver website will be dark for the remainder of the holiday season, but will return as your source for local life science…
Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in Cell Reports from Amanda Haage (fourth from left) and the laboratory of Dr. Guy Tanentzapf (centre) at UBC. Can you provide a brief overview of your lab’s current research focus? Our lab uses cutting edge genetics, imaging, molecular and quantitative approaches to understand how cell junctions contribute to the…
On Sept. 26, a small group representing both these communities from Canada and the U.S., as well as the government, gathered in Vancouver to identify common values in the arena of stem-cell therapies, and agree on principles to move forward. This historic moment recognized that patients who seek health solutions to their chronic, unmet medical needs deserve our attention and…