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Polanyi Prizes celebrate five outstanding Ontario researchers
November 17, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Today five researchers, from a number of Ontario’s leading universities, are being awarded the 2015 Polanyi Prize for advancements in research in their fields. “It is a great honour to be given the opportunity to recognize the…
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$3M funding supports colorectal cancer research
November 17, 2015 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – The Alberta Cancer Foundation is providing $3 million in funding for a colorectal research project to study methods for preventing tumours from repairing themselves after radiation treatment. Some tumours have strong DNA repair systems and can…
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Toronto Western Research Institute renamed the Krembil Research Institute
November 17, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The research arm of Toronto Western Hospital, the Toronto Western Research Institute, has been renamed as the Krembil Research Institute in recognition of the long-standing support of the Krembil family, which is one of Canada’s leading investors…
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New $25,000 fund assists scientists wanting to hold conventions in Montreal
November 12, 2015 by Lab Canada Montréal, QC – Earlier this week, the Palais des congrès de Montréal, the Fonds de recherche du Québec and Chief Scientist Rémi Quirion brought together nearly 50 heads of research centres in Québec for a forum on promoting Québec research.…
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Commercial sea salt samples contaminated with microplastics
November 11, 2015 by Lab Canada Shanghai, China – Tiny plastic bits, collectively known as called microplastics, are showing up in bodies of water around the world, and are accumulating in aquatic creatures, including fish and shellfish. Now scientists, after testing a sampling of commercial products…
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Sudbury Neutrino Observatory wins $3M Breakthrough Prize
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – Queen’s University professor emeritus and Nobel laureate Arthur McDonald, representing the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) Collaboration, has received the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The partnership received the prize at a ceremony and gala on Nov.…
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Food and beverage research gets boost in new facility
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – George Brown College has launched an applied research and industry facility with the goal of helping the food and beverage industry produce nutritious and innovative products for Canadian consumers. Toronto’s food and beverage sector is dominated…
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Stem-cell scientists redefine how blood is made
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Stem-cell scientists, led by pioneering researcher Dr. John Dick, have discovered a completely new view of how human blood is made, upending conventional dogma from the 1960s. The findings, published last week in the journal Science, prove…
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$7.3M supports genomics project to breed Canadian winter-hardy honeybees
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Honeybees, imported mostly from warm southern climes, are dying in the Canadian cold. About a quarter of the colonies die each winter, forcing beekeepers to bring in more from the United States, increasing the risk of importing…
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Blood test for concussion under collaborative development
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Saskatoon , SK – Testing of a protein biomarker that could contribute to a fast, effective and portable test for traumatic brain injuries, commonly known as concussions, is set to commence with funding from the Centre for Drug Research and…
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Ontario Genomics appoints new vice president, research
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Ontario Genomics has announced the appointment of Dr. Robin Harkness as vice president, Research. In this role, Dr. Harkness will support Ontario’s researchers, and their Canadian and international co-investigators from academia and industry, towards securing funding for…
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New rapid test for E. coli improves food safety
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada London, ON – Scientists at Robarts Research Institute have developed new technology that has the potential to drastically improve food safety. Dr. Michael Rieder and his team have created a new rapid-test system to detect E. coli 0157 –…
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Michel Chrtien receives 2015 Wilder-Penfield Prix du Qubec
November 3, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Dr. Michel Chrétien, IRCM emeritus research professor and former scientific director of the institute, is receiving the 2015 Wilder-Penfield Prix du Québec. “Dr. Chrétien is an outstanding researcher known worldwide as the pioneer of the prohormone theory…
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Universit de Montral scientist wins the Lo-Pariseau Award
November 3, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Dr. Guy Sauvageau, principal investigator at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the Université de Montréal, professor in the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine and hematologist at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, has received the…
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Pace picks up for hospital research activity
October 29, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Research activity at Canada’s leading health research organizations rose by a combined 5.0% in fiscal 2014 compared with a 1.1% increase in fiscal 2013, according to Research Infosource, which today released its Canada’s Top 40 Research Hospitals…
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Alberta, 3M Canada partner in medical product testing research
October 28, 2015 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – A collaborative partnership, funded with $500,000 each from the Alberta’s provincial government and 3M Canada, will support research at the Ward of the 21st Century (W21C) at the University of Calgary. The collaboration is intended to help establish…
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Paper-based test performs DNA analysis at low cost
October 28, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Scientists have developed a new paper device that analyzes DNA and could rapidly and inexpensively assess disparate conditions including hepatitis B and male infertility, which together affect millions of people around the world. The test, reported in…
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Testing for second-hand marijuana exposure
October 28, 2015 by Lab Canada Atlanta, GA – With increased legalization of marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes, interest is growing in the potential health effects of its secondhand smoke. A team now reports in ACS’ journal Analytical Chemistry the development of a urine screening…
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Test could predict whether breast cancer will spread to the brain
October 27, 2015 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC & London, UK – Women with particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer could be identified by a test that predicts whether the disease is likely to spread to the brain. An analysis of almost 4,000 patients with…
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Researchers discover gene responsible for chemotherapy-induced heart damage
October 27, 2015 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – In a paper published recently in Nature Genetics, an Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR)-supported research team identified a specific gene variant that increases the risk of developing severe heart damage by five-fold in cancer patients…
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Nicotine gives brain more codeine relief, risk of addiction
October 26, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – According to new research in rat models, nicotine use over time increases the speed that codeine is converted into morphine within the brain, by increasing the amount of a specific enzyme. It appears smokers’ brains are being…
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New centre to shape watershed management practices
October 26, 2015 by Lab Canada London, ON – Researchers say human encroachment is a threat to aquatic ecosystems across the globe. However, the ability to understand how land-use practices impact these fragile ecosystems has been hindered by the massive scale necessary to conduct accurate field…
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Metaorganism study determines if soil pollution benefits trees
October 20, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – The very act of tolerating some forms of soil pollution may give trees an advantage in the natural world, say plant biologists at the Université de Montréal. Their findings were published this week in BMC Plant Biology.…
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Cancer research plagued by poor study design
October 20, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Poorly designed studies may lead to the efficacy of drugs being overestimated and money being wasted on trials that prove fruitless, according to new a study from McGill University. The findings, published last week in the open-source…
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Discovery shows how the brain controls temperature and thirst
October 20, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and Duke University have made a breakthrough in understanding of how the brain detects and prevents dehydration. They have identified the structure of a key…
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Contaminant removal the focus of new international research partnership
October 20, 2015 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – A $40,000 research grant has been awarded to support an international research collaboration aimed at removing contaminants from the environment. The International Flagship Partnership Research Grant (IFPRG), which is being awarded for the first time, is supported…
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University research income shrinks for first time in over a decade
October 15, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – For the first time in 14 years, combined university research income failed to grow last year. Research Infosource provided the information today in its annual ranking report, Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities. Research income at the top…
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Malaria protein shows potential as a cancer treatment
October 14, 2015 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Scientists at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Coastal Health and the BC Cancer Agency have discovered a protein from malaria that could one day help to stop cancerous tumours from growing. This new approach, which…
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Scientists develop DNA nanomachine that detects diagnostic antibodies
October 14, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – New research may revolutionize the slow, cumbersome and expensive process of detecting the antibodies that can help with the diagnosis of infectious and autoimmune diseases such as HIV and rheumatoid arthritis. An international team of researchers have…
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Search for extraterrestrial life gets boost with $1M funding
October 14, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Université de Montréal researchers are determined to be the first to discover life elsewhere in the universe, a goal backed by $1 million in research grants donated by the Trottier Foundation. At the new Institute for Research…
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Machines have nothing on humans when it comes to listening
October 14, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – More than 99% of the time, two words are enough for people with normal hearing to distinguish the voice of a close friend or relative amongst other voices, according to the University of Montreal’s Julien Plante-Hébert. His…
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