Interesting Articles Will Price Be a Barrier to New Cancer Immunotherapy? CBC News | January 22, 2019 A revolutionary new cancer treatment is now available in Canada, but provinces are being advised…sciencecityJanuary 22, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Ionic Stress Enhances ER-PM Connectivity via Phosphoinositide-Associated SYT1 Contact Site Expansion in Arabidopsis Lee, E., et al. | January 21, 2019 In this publication we explain the long-term effect of salt stress in the proteins that…sciencecityJanuary 21, 2019 Read More
Local News Phoenix Molecular Designs Announces Collaboration To Develop Diagnostic for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer PheonixMD via LifeSciences BC | January 21, 2019 Phoenix Molecular Designs (PhoenixMD), a privately-held biotechnology company designing precise cancer therapeutics by targeting essential…sciencecityJanuary 21, 2019 Read More
Local News Scientists Grow Perfect Human Blood Vessels in a Petri Dish UBC Faculty of Medicine | January 18, 2019 Scientists have managed to grow perfect human blood vessels as organoids in a petri dish…sciencecityJanuary 18, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Sunflower Pan-Genome Analysis Shows That Hybridization Altered Gene Content and Disease Resistance Hubner, S., et al. | January 18, 2019 Domesticated plants and animals often display dramatic responses to selection, but the origins of the…sciencecityJanuary 18, 2019 Read More
Interesting Articles Researchers Scramble to Meet Deadline for New Frontiers Research Fund University Affairs | January 17, 2019 While many Canadian academics were enjoying a bit of time off over the holidays, some…sciencecityJanuary 17, 2019 Read More
Local News Legalization Sparks Boom in Once-Stigmatized Field of Marijuana Research CTV News | January 17, 2019 Dr. Mark Ware has devoted the past 20 years of his career to studying marijuana,…sciencecityJanuary 17, 2019 Read More
Local News Controlling Blood Pressure Protects Cognitive Health after Spinal Cord Injury Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute | January 16, 2019 When people think of spinal cord injury (SCI) they tend to focus on paralysis and…sciencecityJanuary 16, 2019 Read More
Local News Dr. Kevin Hay Appointed Clinician-Scientist at the Terry Fox Laboratory Terry Fox Laboratories | January 16, 2019 On behalf of Dr. Francois Bénard, Vice President Research, and Dr. Pamela Hoodless, Director, Terry…sciencecityJanuary 16, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Differential Regulation of TNL-Mediated Immune Signaling by Redundant Helper CNLs Wu, Z., et al. | January 15, 2019 Higher plants utilize nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat domain proteins (NLRs) as intracellular immune receptors to recognize…sciencecityJanuary 15, 2019 Read More