AwardsFeatured Awards Three MSL Postdocs Receive MSFHR 2018 Research Trainee Awards Michael Smith Laboratories | August 23, 2018 Congratulations to three deserving postdocs, Drs. San-Soo Han, James McCoy, and Samrat Thouta of the Michael Smith Laboratories for…sciencecityAugust 23, 2018 Read More
Local News Genetic Model Offers Elegant Tool for Testing Parkinson’s Disease Therapies Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | August 23, 2018 For the past decade, Parkinson’s disease researchers have relied on the experimental equivalent of using…sciencecityAugust 23, 2018 Read More
Local News Is a New Drug Keeping this Woman’s Deadly Huntington Disease at Bay? Science | August 23, 2018 The dark shadow of Huntington disease fell squarely over Michelle Dardengo’s life on the day in…sciencecityAugust 23, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week Stem Cell Bioengineering: Building from Stem Cell Biology Tewary, M., et al. | August 22, 2018 New fundamental discoveries in stem cell biology have yielded potentially transformative regenerative therapeutics. However, widespread…sciencecityAugust 22, 2018 Read More
Local News BC Centre for Excellence Names Dr. Zabrina Brumme Director of Laboratory Program BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS | August 22, 2018 The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) announced Dr. Zabrina Brumme has been appointed…sciencecityAugust 22, 2018 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Connie Eaves to Present the 2018 American Society of Hematology E. Donnall Thomas Lecture American Society of Hematology | August 21, 2018 The American Society of Hematology (ASH) will honor Connie J. Eaves, PhD, FRS (Canada), Corresponding…sciencecityAugust 21, 2018 Read More
Interesting Articles Canadian Farmers, Entrepreneurs, and Health Care Workers to Benefit from New Investment in Research Mitacs | August 20, 2018 Putting research in the hands of those who use it to create and innovate leads…sciencecityAugust 20, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week A Stochastic Assembly Model for Nipah Virus Revealed by Super-Resolution Microscopy Liu, Q., et al. | August 20, 2018 Understanding the virus-host interactions using super-resolution microscopy, and applying the knowledge to vaccine and drug…sciencecityAugust 20, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week Rap2 and TNIK Control Plexin-Dependent Tiled Synaptic Innervation in C. elegans First Author: Xi Chen | Senior Author: Kota Mizumoto | August 17, 2018 Previously we reported that a well-known axon guidance cue Semaphorin and its receptor Plexin mediate…sciencecityAugust 17, 2018 Read More
Local News Tackling Climate Change Genome BC | August 16, 2018 Globally 11 of the last 12 years rank among the 12 warmest since 1850. Greenhouse…sciencecityAugust 16, 2018 Read More