Health Sciences student nets cancer research award
A Simon Fraser University health sciences student’s research has helped break new ground in prostate cancer research and earned him a national award. Mark Labrecque, […]
Month: August 2014
Laboratory equipment: Making decisions about what to buy and why
In today’s fast-changing working environment within the life sciences, it is vital that you, as the manager of the laboratory, establish answers to several important […]
Measuring safety performance in the laboratory
Most laboratories expect that work will be performed safely and that all proper precautions are taken to ensure all aspects of the work – accuracy, […]
Rethinking Liquid Chromatography
Liquid chromatography is one of the most competitive categories in the scientific instrument industry, with the major players continually increasing pressures, adjusting flow rates and […]
Caring for Canada’s Most Vulnerable Citizens through a National Plan for Rare Disorders
Every year, hundreds of Canadians with severe or lifethreatening disorders do not get access to the medicines they need. What do these patients have in […]
Roche and AmorChem announce alliance focused on myotonic muscular dystrophy 1
Roche and Montreal-based venture capital firm AmorChem L.P. have entered into a collaboration to discover novel small molecule diseasemodifying therapies for the treatment of myotonic […]
Researchers use DNA to build tool that may shine light on cancer
The researchers’ nanosensor measures pH variations at the nanoscale determining how acidic (a higher pH level) or alkaline (a lower pH level) it is. Many […]
National genomics research and development initiative renewed
Canadian Minister of State for Science and Technology Ed Holder and National Research Council of Canada (NRC) president John R. McDougall, President of the National […]
BIOTECanada honours gold leaf award winners
The BIOTECanada Gold Leaf Awards were presented during a ceremony at the BIO International Convention in San Diego, CA at the Canada Place Pavilion with […]
Manitoba Ag-Bio sector gets boost from feds and province
Manitoba’s Composites Innovation Centre is receiving over $1.9 million in combined federal-provincial funding from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development […]