AwardsFeatured Awards Dr. Alex Wyatt Receives a CIHR Early Career Investigator AwardVancouver Prostate Centre | December 13, 2017Dr. Alex Wyatt has been awarded a CIHR Early Career Investigator Award for $345,000 over…sciencecityDecember 13, 2017 Read More
Local News Inside The Microbiome: Why Good Gut Bacteria Is The Big Hope For Allergic DiseaseAllergic Living | December 13, 2017Microbes exist everywhere – in water, air, soil, plants and animals, and from the coldest…sciencecityDecember 13, 2017 Read More
Local News Beluga Whale Genome Sequenced for the First TimeGenome BC | December 13, 2017Heartbreaking loss has led to a leap in progress for beluga whale conservation science: the…sciencecityDecember 13, 2017 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Phyton Biotech Wins Grant to Develop New Approaches to Manufacturing ArtemisininPhyton Biotech | December 12, 2017Phyton Biotech today announced that it has received a $400,000 grant from the Bill &…sciencecityDecember 12, 2017 Read More
Local News Preventing a Devastating Complication of Lifesaving Transplants: Two Types of Immune Cells Reduce the Risk of Graft versus Host DiseaseBC Children's Hospital Research Institute | December 12, 2017Right now, 25% of children who survive blood and marrow transplants go on to develop…sciencecityDecember 12, 2017 Read More
Local News This Neuroscientist Wants Researchers to Study More Female BrainsVice | December 12, 2017When we talk about female representation in science, we’re rarely talking about test subjects. We…sciencecityDecember 12, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week REVIEW: Functional Horizontal Gene Transfer from Bacteria to EukaryotesMcCutcheon, J.P. and Husnik, F. | December 11, 2017Bacteria influence eukaryotic biology as parasitic, commensal or beneficial symbionts. Aside from these organismal interactions,…sciencecityDecember 11, 2017 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Cited Podcast Wins Top Journalism AwardMicheal Smith Laboratories | December 11, 2017In two small offices of the Michael Smith Laboratories, among the controlled chaos of labs…sciencecityDecember 11, 2017 Read More
Local News Discovery of Innate Immune Mechanisms of a Novel Microbial-Based Approach for the Treatment of Lung CancerQu Biologics | December 11, 2017Qu Biologics Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing Site Specific Immunomodulators (SSIs), a unique platform of immunotherapies designed…sciencecityDecember 11, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Effects of Teriparatide and Risedronate on New Fractures in Post-Menopausal Women with Severe Osteoporosis (VERO): A Multicentre, Double-Blind, Double-Dummy, Randomised Controlled TrialKendler, D.L. and Lopez-Romero, P., et al. | December 8, 2017The VERO study is the first properly designed and powered clinical trial comparing antiresorptive with…sciencecityDecember 8, 2017 Read More