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November 22 2010
New property in warm superconductors discovered Led by Simon Fraser University physicist Jeff Sonier, scientists at TRIUMF have discovered something that they think may severely hinder the creation of room-temperature (37 degrees Celsius) superconductors.
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November 08 2010
UBC researchers shine light on congenital heart disease ‘hot spots’ Using the Canadian Light Source synchrotron and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, a team of researchers from the University of British Columbia has shed light on the ryanodine receptor, a structure within muscle cells that has been linked to life-threatening congenital heart conditions.
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November 08 2010
Pioneering advances in visualizing Alzheimer’s disease Dr. Stephen Fai, director of the Carleton University Immersive Media Studio (CIMS), and a team of 17 other principal investigators, receive a $1.8-million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research to fund a six-year training program in neurodegenerative lipidomics.
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September 16 2010
New surgery training centre to open in Montréal Surgeons across Canada will soon have a new tool that will lead to better outcomes for patients undergoing brain surgery.
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September 16 2010
SFU video on genomics gets thumbs up Ingenuity, inspiration and curiosity helped a team of six Simon Fraser University science students clinch first prize for the best short film on genomics and health in Gene Screen B.C.’s first-ever film competition.
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July 29 2010
Warnex, the Montreal Heart Institute and CEPMED collaborate to develop new diagnostic test Warnex Inc., the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) and CEPMED (The Centre of Excellence in Personalized Medicine) are collaborating to develop a new diagnostic test for early detection of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
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July 15 2010
Heart procedure made safer thanks to new robotic lab Sunnybrook Health Science Centre announces the opening of Toronto's first robotic arrhythmia invasive lab.
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January 26 2010
DVS Sciences unveils mass cytometer for use in understanding and diagnosing disease Marking the culmination of six years of technology development research funded by Genome Canada through the Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) and others, a Toronto research team unveiled a first-in-class analytical instrument at the recent Great Lakes International Imaging and Flow Cytometry Association annual meeting in Pittsburgh.
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January 22 2010
Researchers from Sherbrooke find complementary solution for production of medical isotopes Researchers at the CHUS's Centre de recherche clinique Étienne-Le Bel (CRCELB) and the Université de Sherbrooke, in collaboration with Advanced Cyclotron Systems Inc. in Vancouver, have demonstrated that technetium 99m can be produced using a cyclotron. Diagnostic testing indicates that cyclotron-produced technetium 99m is fully equivalent to that obtained from nuclear reactor, such as the Chalk River facility.
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December 03 2009
Dalton Pharma Services announces expansion of services Dalton Pharma Services announces the expansion of its pharmaceutical manufacturing services by adding formulation development to its list of integrated capabilities.
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May 22 2009
One Night Live raises over $2 million for Sunnybrook Internationally renowned recording artists Sting, Sheryl Crow and The Canadian Tenors, along with host Chris Noth took the stage of the Air Canada Centre to raise funds to support a new facility for Sunnybrook's Women and Babies program.
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April 16 2009
Sunnybrook performs minimally invasive bypass surgery Sunnybrook's Schulich Heart Centre became the first centre in Toronto to perform minimally invasive, beating-heart bypass surgery to fix clogged arteries and improve blood flow to the heart.
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April 09 2009
Canadian government to invest in local company that will benefit home health care delivery The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), announces a contribution to MedShare Inc. from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) to support an innovative research and development project.
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April 09 2009
Nanoscale research attracts big funding Neil Branda and Byron Gates, Canada Research Chairs and material scientists, are receiving $884,106 from Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) to enhance Simon Fraser University’s capability for materials design and development at 4D LABS.
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January 22 2009
IBM develops MRI with 100 million times more detail Researchers at IBM have developed a medical imaging tool that provides doctors with 100 million times more picture detail, or resolution, than conventional equipment. IBM's breakthrough magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology relies on the detection of "ultrasmall magnetic forces," according to the company.
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December 15 2008
Researcher develops ultrasound so tiny that it can travel through the eardrum A new ultrasound device is being developed that is so small it can travel through the eardrum, onwards through the middle ear and then rest against the inner ear to provide images of the basilier membrane as it vibrates, sending messages to the brain as it interprets sound.
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October 30 2008
Queen’s climbs rankings in research intensity Queen's University jumps from seventh to fourth place in research intensity, and recorded the largest overall increase in funding of the top 16 Canadian institutions measured in the annual ranking of Canada's top 50 research universities.
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October 24 2008
Queen’s – KGH discovery revolutionizes hip transplants A revolutionary new surgical tool developed by researchers at Queen's and Kingston General Hospital will increase the accuracy and accessibility of hip transplant operations, as well as saving time and money.
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October 20 2008
Toronto early fetal ultrasound centre the first of its kind A new service at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is striving to ensure that pregnant women have the option to detect possible fetal problems earlier in their pregnancy.
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October 15 2008
Ontario Genomics Institute invests in DNA barcode research project Through its Pre-commercialization Business Development Fund (PBDF), the Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) is investing in a joint effort by the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO, University of Guelph) and Toronto-based industry partner Safeguard Biosystems to develop a point-of-contact, DNA barcode-based assay that will differentiate between groups of animal species in random samples of plant and animal foods.
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October 15 2008
Facebook genomics Genome Alberta, a not-for-profit research organization located in Calgary is making unique use of the Facebook social networking site as a way to get the word out about genetics and genomics.
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October 09 2008
Sunnybrook developed ‘eSheet’ now in use at Odette Cancer Centre Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has developed and launched a ground-breaking new web technology tool called "eSheet" that will enhance the patient and staff experience at Sunnybrook's Odette Cancer Centre.
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October 06 2008
Waterloo Professor wins National Award for eco-friendly, portable sampling device Canadian scientist Janusz Pawliszyn has just ensured that many chemical tests that were once laborious and environmentally unfriendly are now simple and safe to do.
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August 29 2008
Urodynamix awarded NRC-IRAP support for new prostate cancer detection technology Urodynamix Technologies Ltd. receives a non-refundable financial contribution from the National Research Council Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) to help accelerate the development and commercialization of new NIRS technology for the detection of prostate cancer during the digital rectal examination, or DRE.
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August 26 2008
U of S-led Team Designs “Immune Buildings” to combat chemical warfare and diseases Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) have opened a new engineering lab to design a ventilation system that could protect schools, hospitals and other public buildings from chemical warfare and bioterrorist attacks.
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August 07 2008
Summit Drug Development Services, LLC selects octagon technology to power its innovative services CEO & chairman Jim Walker of Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. announces that Summit Drug Development Services, LLC has chosen both ViewPoint® and StartingPoint® to facilitate submission document authoring and integrated electronic regulatory submission management.
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July 18 2008
Canada’s pathologists unveil action plan The Canadian Association of Pathologists (CAP) wraps up its annual meeting in Ottawa with the release of a five-point plan to ensure Canada has the highest quality laboratory services.
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July 18 2008
OGI and Invitrogen bring epigenomics to the fore in Genome 2.0 symposium The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) teamed up with Invitrogen Corporation, a
California-based global leader in providing life sciences technology, to host Genome 2.0: New Frontiers in Epigenomics, a one-day symposium addressing epigenetic regulation of gene expression with a special focus on chromatin biology, DNA methylation, non-coding RNAs and technology development. |
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May 23 2008
Vancouver Island Technology Community recognizes Geneus at VIATeC Technology Awards GenoLogics is recognized by the Vancouver Island Technology Community for the launch of its lab and data management system for genomics research, Geneus. GenoLogics received the award at the annual Technology Awards Dinner hosted by VIATeC.
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May 16 2008
CV Technologies opens new headquarters and research facility in Edmonton CV Technologies Inc. opens its new $11 million headquarters and research facilities in the Edmonton Research Park allowing it to ramp up product pipeline goals as part of a five-year business plan. The new centre houses eight laboratories for its 25-person research and product development team which includes 15 PhDs.
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May 16 2008
Patheon announces completion of York Mills facility sale Patheon announces the completion of the sale of its York Mills facility located in Toronto, $12.5 million.
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April 11 2008
Ontario first for patients with gastrointestinal problems Sunnybrook's Odette Cancer Centre is the first regional cancer centre in Ontario to combine leading-edge "inside-the-body" endoscopic ultrasound imaging with direct access to comprehensive care for patients with gastrointestinal malignancy.
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January 11 2008
ProMetic reports that PRDT technology amplifies sensitivity ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. announces that the incorporation of Pathogen Removal and Diagnostic Technologies Inc.'s ("PRDT") concentration technology to commercially available post mortem diagnostic tests for bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("BSE") could vastly improve the sensitivity of these tests by as much as 80-fold.
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September 25 2007
InNexus Biotechnology unveils new platform for augmenting antibody therapeutics InNexus Biotechnology Inc., a drug development company commercializing the next generation of monoclonal antibodies based on its Dynamic Cross Linking (DXLTM) technology, announces that significant enhancement of critical performance factors for many monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) appears possible through a novel cross linking technology developed by the company.
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June 25 2007
SFU unveils new science and tech building Simon Fraser University opens its new science and technology building, considered one of B.C.'s most complex, building projects.
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April 20 2007
Researchers seek to restore mobility to stroke victims A team of SFU kinesiologists is seeking participants for a new study that aims to restore hand and wrist mobility in stroke victims through the use of robotic rehabilitation devices.
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March 23 2007
Award recognizes ART's SoftScan optical breast imaging technology ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc. a Canadian medical device and optical molecular imaging products company is the 2007 winner of the Frost & Sullivan North American Optical Imaging Device Product Innovation of the Year Award for its innovative SoftScan optical breast imaging system.
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March 02 2007
Kingston's Hotel Dieu Hospital adopts software solution to conquer expected surge in demand for colonoscopy/endoscopy Doctors and patients at Kingston's Hotel Dieu Hospital are hopeful that the adoption of a locally developed wait list management tool will see shorter wait times for patients seeking endoscopies and other non-operating diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
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March 02 2007
Eye-movement test for FASD moves into the community A simple eye-movement test developed at Queen's that helps identify and assess children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) may one day be used by health-care workers in remote Ontario communities where the condition is believed to be more prevalent.
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October 17 2006
Changing the rules of chemistry Researchers with Queen's University and the National Research Council have developed an essential tool on the quantum mechanics workbench.
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September 13 2006
Crossing Canada on a Single Gallon of Gas A team of engineering students from the University of British Columbia has built a vehicle so efficient that it could travel from Vancouver to Halifax on one gallon of gasoline.
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September 13 2006
Coated Atoms Prove New Point The phrase "sharp as a tack" may no longer be relevant, now that researchers at the University of Alberta have created the sharpest object ever made.
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September 13 2006
Genomics Analysis of the Effects of Boron Compounds on a Cell In recent years, several research groups have begun pioneering chemical genomics for drug discovery.
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September 13 2006
Nano-structured Materials in Chiral Chromatography A breakthrough in chiral materials technology simplifies chiral chromatography more than ever before, allowing chiral chromatography columns to behave more like familiar normal and reversed-phase columns.
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August 10 2006
The Role of Academe-based HTS The need for new pharmaceutical agents has resulted in the birth of high throughput screening (HTS).
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August 09 2006
Alberta Opens Nanotechnology Institute The National Research Coucil of Canada (NRC) National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) opened in Edmonton in June with a goal to provide optimal conditions for nano-scale research and foster collaboration between researchers.
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July 14 2006
A BIG Name in Nanoscience By Silvia Mittler, PhD The Western Nanofabrication Facility
With the establishment of Surface Science Western in 1981 and the Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI) in 1982, the University of Western Ontario (UWO) (London, ON) was one of Canada's pioneers in nanoscience long before the word "nano" became all pervasive. |
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March 22 2006
Computer Chip Method Improves Imaging A team of researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY) has created a new computer chip method that allows for imaging capabilities at the nano level.
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March 02 2006
DNA Bar-coding an Effective Tool Discovering and identifying species can be done effectively via DNA bar-coding, according to a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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January 09 2006
Laser-created Blood Clot Aids Stroke Research With the help of laser technology, researchers are now able to create a blood clot without the harmful after-effects, a technique that is providing a greater understanding of the mechanisms of stroke.
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January 01 2006
Collaborative Efforts By Murray Hunter HEALTH-CARE SOLUTIONS ARE FOUND WHEN MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY COMBINE
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January 01 2006
Cold Comfort By Kristine Archer President and CEO Steven Arless is leading CryoCath
Technologies Inc. into a new frontier |
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October 18 2005
The Science of Integration By Amber Lepage-Monette Systems biology research brings differing approaches together to understand disease mechanisms
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July 12 2005
Toxicity: Not a Dirty Word By Dr. David G. Barnes and Colin G. Rousseaux, PhD Innovators and therapeutic product developers in the world of biotechnology often fear the word toxicity.
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June 28 2005
Biomarkers Predict Kidney Failure Patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery often run the risk of developing acute renal failure.
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June 28 2005
Canadian Research on Diabetes Control New research from McMaster University (Hamilton, ON) suggests Type II diabetics can safely achieve target blood sugar levels faster and more frequently when insulin glargine is added to their therapy, instead of taking oral agents alone.
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June 20 2005
Stem Cell 'Eggs' Could Treat Infertility A new process developed by Orly Lacham-Kaplan, PhD of the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories (Victoria, Australia) may help sterile women conceive a child using their own bilogical material.
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June 14 2005
ONTARIO - Networks of Centres of Excellence By Amber Lepage-Monette Ontarios excelling research
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June 14 2005
ONTARIO - Image is Everything By Amber Lepage-Monette Ontario is strong in imaging research and technologies
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May 30 2005
PET/CT Scans Can Detect Cancer Lesions Earlier The ongoing search for early cancer detection methods has been helped by a team of researchers at Baltimore, Md.-based Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
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May 10 2005
Scientists Use 'Bridge' to Change Protein Function Two researchers have developed a way to change the function of a protein within an existing structure, creating an easier protein engineering method.
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March 28 2005
Researchers Develop Colour-Coded Protein Folding Test Scientists at Stanford University (Stanford, CA) have developed a test that can detect conformational changes of the 3-D shapes unique to proteins.
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March 07 2005
Biomanufacturing By Mike Butler, PhD The Key to Success in Biotechnology
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March 07 2005
Positive Interference By Deborah Komlos RNAi's Prevalence and Importance in Basic Medical Research
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February 08 2005
New Challenges for Biopharmaceutical Process Development By John Curling The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), through the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)/Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), has long identified that the development of biopharmaceutical products is becoming increasingly challenging, and is inefficient and costly.
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January 17 2005
Better Screening Tools By Deborah Komlos Cellular Assays Gaining Favour in Drug-Discovery Research
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January 10 2005
New Security Software Provides Extra Data Protection Keeping computer-based medical records safe is a growing concern for the R&D and health-care industries, but a new software system could help close the security gap.
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November 13 2004
The 2004 Readers' Choice Awards |
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November 12 2004
ATTACK of the LAB-BOTS By Malorye A. Branca, Bio-IT World "Automate" has become the new mantra for pharmaceutical technology innovators. With productivity goals soaring and investor confidence slipping, drug makers are pressed not only to deliver improved new drugs but also to do so with remarkable efficiency.
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October 04 2004
APIs Take Centre Stage at Joint CVG/TPD Convention and Exhibition By Deborah Komlos Creating successful drug candidates requires a thorough understanding of the key pharma ingredients on which they are based.
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September 27 2004
Robarts Officially Opens High-tech Imaging Laboratories By Amber Lepage-Monette Contributions totalling more than $15 million have allowed Robarts Research Institute in London, Ont. to develop some of the most advanced imaging laboratories in Canada.
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August 23 2004
New Gene Therapy Technique May Prevent Heart Attack Damage A novel gene therapy may increase survival rates of heart attack patients and prevent damage caused by heart attacks.
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August 16 2004
Creating Clones in Newcastle By Kevin Davies, Bio-IT World For the first time, researchers in the United Kingdom have received permission to conduct experiments on 'therapeutic cloning' - research that could take medical science one step closer to realizing the utopian vision of replacement body parts outlined in July by Ron Reagan Jr. at the U.S. Democratic National Convention in Boston, Mass.
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July 19 2004
High Throughput Method for Meat Spoilage Analysis: SPME with CombiPAL Automation BY SUSANNA WONG, JOHN O'REILLY, PHD AND JANUSZ PAWLISZYN, PHD Food and beverage manufacturers continually strive to extend the shelf life of their products. The storage time is often limited by the release of off-flavours and off-odours generated through degradation of the food as it ages.
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July 19 2004
PURSUING Proteomics By Deborah Janssen According to the American Cancer Society (Atlanta, GA), more than 563,000 Americans will die of cancer this year. One of the keys to reducing that number hinges on the fact that, if diagnosed before metastasis, the five-year survival rate can exceed 90 per cent.
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June 16 2004
To Grasp the Cord By Deborah Komlos Spinal cord injury research in Canada seeks improved basic understanding and successful regenerative, repair and diagnostic methodologies
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May 10 2004
Celmed BioSciences Sells Neurology Program Celmed BioSciences Inc. (St.-Laurent, QC), a subsidiary of Theratechnologies Inc. (St.-Laurent, QC), has sold the private company Celmed USA (Los Angeles, CA), along with its neurology assets and technology platform, to Dr. Michel Lévesque of Cedars-Sinai Health System (Los Angeles, CA). Lévesque will pursue research on a neural stem cell transplantation program for Parkinsons disease.
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April 19 2004
Making Waves in AIDS Large strides have been made since HIV was first identified more than 20 years ago to be the cause of AIDS.
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March 16 2004
Building from a Blueprint The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (Ottawa, ON) has released the strategic plan that will direct its activities over the next five years.
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March 16 2004
Instrument Design for Parallel Synthesis In the modern drug and materials research sectors, the parallel synthesis method is gaining more and more importance.
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March 08 2004
Molecular Snipers Aim at Multiple Targets Thwarted in their goal of finding "smart drugs" that obliterate tumours with a single shot, oncologists are turning instead to compounds that hit multiple targets simultaneously.
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February 16 2004
Tough Issues in Genomics GELS COMES TO THE FORE
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February 16 2004
Tough Issues in Genomics By Deborah Komlos GELS COMES TO THE FORE
Attract funding. Develop your innovation. Get regulatory approval and then market away. These basic steps make product development and commercialization seem like a breeze. |
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January 12 2004
Apoptosis Approach GEMIN X BIOTECHNOLOGIES INC. FOUNDER GORDON SHORE, PHD PURSUES CANCER TREATMENT THROUGH APOPTOSIS
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January 12 2004
Apoptosis Approach By Patricia Nicholson GEMIN X BIOTECHNOLOGIES INC. FOUNDER GORDON SHORE, PHD PURSUES CANCER TREATMENT THROUGH APOPTOSIS
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December 01 2003
Tracking Key Targets Biomarkers are shedding light on disease and improving drug development
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December 01 2003
Protein Structure Prediction in Drug Discovery Much has been made of the importance of predicting the biologically active conformation of a protein from its primary amino acid sequence - the protein - folding problem.
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July 01 2003
Biotech Warning! Your Compliance is Required 21 CFR Part 11
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July 01 2003
Probing Proteins A glance at key Canadian proteomics projects
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July 01 2003
PENCE Takes on SARS Quick response spurs research forward
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June 01 2003
The Future of Plant-Derived Vaccines Ethical considerations for biotechnology
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May 01 2003
The Emerging Metabolomics Industry A new generation of "omic" research
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April 01 2003
Medicine Versus Microbes The Infectious Disease Research Centre takes on some of the world's toughest - but smallest - killers
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February 01 2003
Pursuing the Prostate New approaches to a challenging cancer
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