AwardsFeatured Awards MSFHR Funds 11 BC Innovators in First Innovation to Commercialization Awards Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research | August 24, 2017 MSFHR has announced 11 award recipients in the first Innovation to Commercialization (I2C) competition. These…sciencecityAugust 24, 2017 Read More
Local News More Than an Antibiotic: Unveiling Alternative Therapeutic Potential of Gentamicin The Centre for Blood Research | August 24, 2017 Approximately 10% of rare genetic diseases are caused by nonsense mutations, in which a stop…sciencecityAugust 24, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week De Novo Mutations in YWHAG Cause Early-Onset Epilepsy Guella, I. and Farrer, M.J., et al. | August 23, 2017 These gene mutations are the latest discovered in epilepsy, and enable a much faster more…sciencecityAugust 23, 2017 Read More
Local News New DNA-Based Projects to Boost Fruit Plant Trade Canada Food Inspection Agency via Newswire | August 23, 2017 Canadian fruit growers need the best varieties of plants to be successful. In the case…sciencecityAugust 23, 2017 Read More
Interesting Articles Investing in Research Is the Best Way to Create an Innovative Economy The Globe and Mail | August 22, 2017 With Canada’s 150th birthday squarely in the rear-view mirror, we should now look to our…sciencecityAugust 22, 2017 Read More
Local News Working Together with Indigenous Peoples to Enhance Equity and Access in Precision Health Genome BC | August 21, 2017 Technology advancements and decreasing costs have made DNA sequencing more accessible than ever before. The…sciencecityAugust 21, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Near-Atomic Resolution Cryoelectron Microscopy Structure of the 30-Fold Homooligomeric SpoIIIAG Channel Essential to Spore Formation in Bacillus Subtilis Zeytuni, N. and Strynadka, N.C., et al. | August 21, 2017 Bacterial sporulation allows starving cells to differentiate into metabolically dormant spores that can survive extreme…sciencecityAugust 21, 2017 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards A Two Year Operating Grant Has Been Awarded to Dr. Connie Eaves by the Cancer Research Society Terry Fox Laboratories | August 21, 2017 Our goal is to obtain new information about “autophagy” that could help to improve breast…sciencecityAugust 21, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Amyloid Formation Disrupts the Balance between Interleukin-1β and Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist in Human Islets Hui, Q. and Marzban, L., et al. | August 18, 2017 β-cell dysfunction and apoptosis associated with islet inflammation play a key role in the pathogenesis…sciencecityAugust 18, 2017 Read More
Local News VIDEO: Understanding the G-quadruplex UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | August 18, 2017 How is the human genome sequence packaged in addition to the double helical structure? And…sciencecityAugust 18, 2017 Read More