Local News New Research Shows Many Women with Breast Cancer Don’t Need Chemo BC Cancer | July 9, 2018 Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women with one in nine developing the…sciencecityJuly 9, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week Mechanics-Guided Developmental Fate Patterning Tewary, M. and Zandstra, P.W. | July 9, 2018 A micropatterned human pluripotent stem cell-based developmental model was utilized to demonstrate the role of…sciencecityJuly 9, 2018 Read More
Local News SFU Graduate Students Join International Network of African Scientists Pursuing Innovative HIV and Tuberculosis Research SFU Faculty of Health Sciences | July 6, 2018 Five FHS graduate students, who are citizens of Kenya, Botswana and Rwanda, were recently admitted…sciencecityJuly 6, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week C-Terminal Truncation of IFN-γ Inhibits Proinflammatory Macrophage Responses and Is Deficient in Autoimmune Disease Dufour, A. and Overall, C.M., et al. | July 6, 2018 IFNγ stimulates differentiation to pro-inflammatory (M1, classically-activated) macrophages. In this publication, we demonstrate that proteolytic…sciencecityJuly 6, 2018 Read More
Local News HPV Test More Effective Than Pap Smear in Cancer Screening, Study Suggests CNN | July 6, 2018 Cervical cancer is among the easiest gynecologic cancers to prevent, and two screening tests can help…sciencecityJuly 6, 2018 Read More
Local News This Partnership Between BC Cancer and Microsoft Could Change the Future of Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Daily Hive Vancouver | July 5, 2018 Cancer is one of the biggest health crises of our generation – statistics now indicate…sciencecityJuly 5, 2018 Read More
Local News Meet the Researcher: Dr. Ed Pryzdial Centre for Blood Research | July 5, 2018 Prof. Ed Pryzdial was one of the first people that I met when I joined…sciencecityJuly 5, 2018 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Awards Support Innovative Research Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute | July 5, 2018 Future health care needs require visionary approaches to tackle the challenges confronting patients and their…sciencecityJuly 5, 2018 Read More
Spotlight Cody Lo Talks Research, Medicine, and Science Communications Science in the City | July 4, 2018 Cody Lo is a first year medical student at the University of British Columbia working…sciencecityJuly 4, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week miR-143/145 Differentially Regulate Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Activity Through Suppression of Canonical TGFβ Signaling Lam, J. and Karsan, A., et al. | July 4, 2018 In this publication we explore how two miRNAs that are always deleted in a type…sciencecityJuly 4, 2018 Read More