Local News A Pretty Plant of Summer Produces a Promising Anti-Diabetes Compound Michael Smith Laboratories | July 11, 2018 Roughly half of the western medicines used today were derived from naturally occurring plant metabolites.…sciencecityJuly 11, 2018 Read More
Local News Bacteria-Powered Solar Cell Converts Light to Energy, Even Under Overcast Skies UBC News | July 10, 2018 UBC researchers have found a cheap, sustainable way to build a solar cell using bacteria…sciencecityJuly 10, 2018 Read More
Local News Health Canada Cleared EmeTerm Anti-Nausea Wristband and HeadaTerm Anti-Migraine Head Patch LifeSciencesBC | July 10, 2018 Shortly after WAT Medical’s leading product to treat nausea-induced vomiting, EmeTerm, received its FDA clearance…sciencecityJuly 10, 2018 Read More
Local News New Research Shows Many Women with Breast Cancer Don’t Need Chemo BC Cancer | July 9, 2018 Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women with one in nine developing the…sciencecityJuly 9, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week Mechanics-Guided Developmental Fate Patterning Tewary, M. and Zandstra, P.W. | July 9, 2018 A micropatterned human pluripotent stem cell-based developmental model was utilized to demonstrate the role of…sciencecityJuly 9, 2018 Read More
Local News SFU Graduate Students Join International Network of African Scientists Pursuing Innovative HIV and Tuberculosis Research SFU Faculty of Health Sciences | July 6, 2018 Five FHS graduate students, who are citizens of Kenya, Botswana and Rwanda, were recently admitted…sciencecityJuly 6, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week C-Terminal Truncation of IFN-γ Inhibits Proinflammatory Macrophage Responses and Is Deficient in Autoimmune Disease Dufour, A. and Overall, C.M., et al. | July 6, 2018 IFNγ stimulates differentiation to pro-inflammatory (M1, classically-activated) macrophages. In this publication, we demonstrate that proteolytic…sciencecityJuly 6, 2018 Read More
Local News HPV Test More Effective Than Pap Smear in Cancer Screening, Study Suggests CNN | July 6, 2018 Cervical cancer is among the easiest gynecologic cancers to prevent, and two screening tests can help…sciencecityJuly 6, 2018 Read More
Local News This Partnership Between BC Cancer and Microsoft Could Change the Future of Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Daily Hive Vancouver | July 5, 2018 Cancer is one of the biggest health crises of our generation – statistics now indicate…sciencecityJuly 5, 2018 Read More
Local News Meet the Researcher: Dr. Ed Pryzdial Centre for Blood Research | July 5, 2018 Prof. Ed Pryzdial was one of the first people that I met when I joined…sciencecityJuly 5, 2018 Read More