Nanoparticles are being employed in an increasingly wide range of biological applications, including as fluorescent markers and as vehicles for drug delivery. Their size allows them to cross physiological barriers and access different tissues,...
Automated system isolates rare cells Silicon Biosystems was challenged with designing, developing and producing a tool capable of detecting and isolating circulating tumour cells (CTCs) with the purpose of studying personalized care in oncology or fetal cells in maternal blood to...
Automation improves tissue engineering Poorly healing wounds, broken cartilage, strokes, Parkinson's disease – in future, these problems and many other diseases will be helped by regenerative medicine. By using tissue engineering and stem cells, scientists have the goal of...
Corn insecticide linked to great die-off of beneficial honeybees New research has linked springtime die-offs of honeybees critical for pollinating food crops — part of the mysterious malady called colony collapse disorder — with technology for planting corn coated with insecticides. The study,... May 16, 2012 10:36AM
Ontario girl discovers antioxidant properties of nano-crystalline cellulose Ottawa, ON - An Ontario girl, 16, who invented a disease-fighting, anti-aging compound using nano-particles from trees, won top national honours today in the 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada (SBCC). May 8, 2012 1:01PM
Green chemistry award for Xerox Research Centre of Canada Mississauga, ON - The Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC) has won the Chemical Institute of Canada’s 2012 Ontario Green Chemistry and Engineering Award (Organization). The Ontario Ministry of Environment sponsors the award. May 8, 2012 11:36AM
New $100M fund to support brain research Toronto, ON - The federal government has announcedd the creation of the Canada Brain Research Fund which will focus on supporting neuroscience research. May 7, 2012 10:53PM
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