AwardsFeatured Awards UBC Faculty of Medicine Receives $31M in Federal Grants for Research InfrastructureUBC Faculty of Medicine | October 18, 2017Production of cancer-killing isotopes and creating more personalized treatments for respiratory diseases are among the…sciencecityOctober 18, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Selective Aggregation of the Splicing Factor Hsh155 Suppresses Splicing upon Genotoxic StressMathew, V. and Stirling, P.C., et al. | October 18, 2017When a cell responds to DNA damage it must coordinate DNA repair with changes in…sciencecityOctober 18, 2017 Read More
Local News Research-Treatment Model Puts B.C. Children’s Hospital at Forefront of ‘Precision Medicine’The Vancouver Sun | October 18, 2017For Celia Lau, the value of the research at B.C. Children’s Hospital is not hard…sciencecityOctober 18, 2017 Read More
Interesting Articles German Researchers Resign from Elsevier Journals in Push for Nationwide Open AccessScience | October 17, 2017Five leading German scientists have resigned from their editorial positions at journals published by Elsevier,…sciencecityOctober 17, 2017 Read More
Local News UBC Researchers Pull Paper Linking Vaccine Component to Autism after Data Alleged to Be ManipulatedCBC News | October 17, 2017Researchers from the University of British Columbia are retracting their scientific paper linking aluminum in vaccines to autism…sciencecityOctober 17, 2017 Read More
Local News ICORD Student Competes InternationallyICORD | October 17, 2017ICORD PhD student Seth Tigchelaar is representing UBC in the international Universitas 21 3-Minute Thesiscompetition. The 3…sciencecityOctober 17, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Conserved and Unique Features of the Fission Yeast Core Atg1 ComplexNanji, T. and Yip, C.K., et al. | October 17, 2017Much of the published studies have focused on the Atg1 complex from budding yeast Saccharomyces…sciencecityOctober 17, 2017 Read More
Local News The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) Announces Appointments to Its Board of DirectorsThe Centre for Drug Research and Development | October 16, 2017The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), Canada’s national drug development and commercialization centre,…sciencecityOctober 16, 2017 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Five SFU-Led Research Projects Share $21.7 Million from CFI’s Innovation FundSFU News | October 16, 2017Five SFU research projects—from creating a new centre for wearable biomedical technologies to studies in…sciencecityOctober 16, 2017 Read More
Interesting Articles The Future of DNA SequencingNature | October 13, 2017Forty years ago, two papers described the first tractable methods for determining the order of the…sciencecityOctober 13, 2017 Read More