Local News Fetal Reduction in Multi-Fetal Pregnancies Associated with Better Birth Outcomes UBC Faculty of Medicine | May 17, 2017 UBC Faculty of Medicine researchers have found that reducing twin and triplet pregnancies to singleton…sciencecityMay 17, 2017 Read More
Local News B.C. Developed Hepatitis C Screening Test Personalizes Treatment for Patients The Globe and Mail | May 16, 2017 Scientists in Vancouver have developed a new screening tool that reveals the genetic signature of…sciencecityMay 16, 2017 Read More
Local News New Research Finds Brain Injury Causes Impulse Control Problems in Rats Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | May 16, 2017 New research from Dr. Catharine Winstanley's lab confirms for the first time that even mild…sciencecityMay 16, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week The Histone Methyltransferase EZH2 Is a Therapeutic Target in Small Cell Carcinoma of the Ovary, Hypercalcemic Type Wang, Y. and Huntsman, D.G., et al. | May 15, 2017 Small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type (SCCOHT) is a rare but extremely lethal…sciencecityMay 15, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Stat3 Regulates Centrosome Clustering in Cancer Cells via Stathmin/PLK1 Morris, E.J. and Dedhar, S., et al. | May 15, 2017 Cancer cells have been observed to frequently have amplified centrosomes. These amplified centrosomes must be…sciencecityMay 15, 2017 Read More
Local News To Crack the Vaccine Code, UBC Assembles Its Own “Ocean’s Thirteen” UBC Faculty of Medicine | May 15, 2017 Vaccines have rightly come to be regarded as one of modern medicine’s greatest accomplishments, having…sciencecityMay 15, 2017 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Innovative Researcher Honoured as Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors Michael Smith Laboratories | May 12, 2017 Dr. Terrance (Terry) Snutch was recently inducted as a Fellow in the National Academy of…sciencecityMay 12, 2017 Read More
Local News CDRD Appoints Matthew J. Carlyle Chief Financial Officer The CDRD | May 12, 2017 The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), Canada’s national drug development and commercialization engine…sciencecityMay 12, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Reappraisal of TDP-43 Pathology in FTLD-U Subtypes Mackenzie, I.R., et al. | May 12, 2017 Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with tau-negative, ubiquitin-immunoreactive (-ir) pathology (FTLD-U) is subclassified based on the type…sciencecityMay 12, 2017 Read More
Local News Combatting Resistant Strains of Hep C Virus Could Improve Effectiveness of Therapy Genome BC | May 11, 2017 Nearly 1 in 150 Canadians are infected with Hepatitis C (HCV). British Columbia has an…sciencecityMay 11, 2017 Read More