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Discovery
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July 23 2007
Ontario leads cancer breakthrough Published this week in Nature Genetics, a global team of scientists led by MaRS tenant the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research as well as Cancer Care Ontario reported that they found the first genetic predictor for colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer in Canada. This is good news especially for those living in Ontario, which has one of the highest incidences for colorectal cancer in the world.
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July 06 2007
Modified mushrooms may yield human drugs Mushrooms might serve as biofactories for the production of various beneficial human drugs, according to plant pathologists who have inserted new genes into mushrooms.
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June 25 2007
Resverlogix collaborates NexVas(TM) AD program with leading Alzheimer's researcher Resverlogix Corp. signs a collaborative research agreement with Dr. Larry Sparks of the Sun Health Research Institute (SHRI) to study Resverlogix's novel ApoA-I enhancing therapy for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease (AD).
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June 25 2007
Study finds blood glucose measurement by non-invasive monitor just like lab analysis Biosign Technologies Inc. releases the results of a study showing that blood glucose measurements from its unique, non-invasive monitoring system are not significantly different from laboratory blood analysis.
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June 25 2007
McDonald and SNO team win Franklin Medal Queen's physicist Art McDonald and his team of scientific sleuths from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) win another prestigious international award for their groundbreaking discoveries about the nature of matter and the structure of the universe.
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June 14 2007
London scientists explore new radiation delivery technology for cancer treatment For approximately 100 years, radiation therapy has been a vital tool in the treatment of cancers. The June issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics explains how London researchers are continuing to perfect the accuracy and efficacy of this therapy for the benefit of patients and clinicians.
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May 28 2007
Potential anti-inflammatory drug secures award for U of S researchers A new drug with the potential to treat a wide array of inflammatory conditions has secured this year's Award of Innovation for two University of Saskatchewan researchers.
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May 11 2007
Sentinel lymph node in cervical cancer reduces complications In the uncommon application of Sentinel Lymph Node (SLN) procedure to cervical cancer, Sunnybrook researchers have further validated its application as safe and practical in the treatment of the disease according to a study published in Gynecologic Oncology.
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April 25 2007
AEterna Zentaris discloses In Vivo data for its GHRH Antagonist JMR-132 AEterna Zentaris Inc. has presented an abstract outlining in vivo data for its growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) antagonist JMR-132 in breast cancer, at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting.
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April 18 2007
Functional Genomics and Proteomics in Personalized Medicine By Eef Harmsen, PhD, Rob Sladek, MD and Dr. Andrew Orr, MD
21st Century Approaches to Complex Diseases What is personalized medicine? Personalized medicine is not new. When your doctor tells you that your cholesterol is too high, that you need to lose weight and that you should stop smoking, he or she is giving you personalized advice, tailored to your specific situation, that will help you reduce your chances of having a heart attack or stroke. |
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April 13 2007
Predicting harm in older cognitive patients Researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre say they have identified areas of neuropsychological function that may cause self-neglect in cognitively impaired seniors living alone.
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April 13 2007
Scientists make advances on genetic basis of autism The Canadian Autism Genome Project (CAGP), funded by the Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) and led by Dr. Stephen Scherer of The Hospital for Sick Children, have discovered a previously unidentified chromosomal region containing genes associated with Autism.
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April 02 2007
Inimex product candidate is first immune defense regulator to cure infections without causing harmful inflammation Inimex Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s product candidate IDR-1 is the first immune system trigger to cure infections without causing harmful inflammation, according to a paper published in the April 2007 issue of Nature Biotechnology.
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April 02 2007
UBC discovery may lead to 'smart' therapies for breast, ovarian cancer New non-toxic and targeted therapies for metastatic breast and ovarian cancers may now be possible, thanks to a discovery by a team of researchers at the University of British Columbia.
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March 19 2007
Sperm protein discovered at Queen's University may boost the success rate of in-vitro fertilization A Queen's University researcher has been awarded $142,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Proof of Principle program to develop a protein that may help to treat male infertility.
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March 12 2007
Canada Wide Study to Look at SSRI Antidepressants Nearly 20 per cent of cardiac patients suffer from major depression, which may have a significant negative impact on the outcome of the cardiac disease.
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March 12 2007
Vision Study Answers Question that has Vexed Scientists for Years Reaching for your morning coffee may feel like the simplest part of your day, but a new study led by York University Psychology Professor Doug Crawford reveals it relies on a critical brain mechanism that matches vision to action.
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March 09 2007
Discovery gives new hope for advanced breast cancer sufferers A surprising discovery made by Queen's University researchers that happened when their work took an unexpected turn, may end up helping women with advanced breast cancer respond better to conventional drug treatments.
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March 02 2007
CIHR-funded research reveals new implications for women using antidepressant medication CIHR-funded study shows a difference in alcohol consumption habits between women and men taking antidepressants. The research conducted by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) concluded that women suffering from depression consumed more alcohol than women who did not experience depression, regardless of antidepressant use.
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February 22 2007
Bill Gates' makes more than just a donation The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is contributing $28 million, and five federal departments a total of $111 million, to accelerate Canada's contribution to the global research and testing for an HIV vaccine. The impact on the biotech industry will be massive.
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February 22 2007
OGI-funded scientists publish key advances on genetic basis of autism Canadian Autism Genome Project, funded by the Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) and led by Dr. Stephen Scherer of The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto), has discovered - as part of the international Autism Genome Project consortium - a previously unidentified chromosomal region containing genes associated with autism.
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February 19 2007
Allon Therapeutics releases virtual animation to display how its drug works Over the course of 2006 Allon Therapeutics published numerous times how their drug works and the underlying mechanism of action.
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February 19 2007
Leading researchers and experts will gather to discuss latest advancements in drug discovery The Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) will gather in Montreal from April 15-19 to discuss the latest findings and research on advancements in biotechnology and drug discovery.
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February 19 2007
Prize winning team unlocks secrets of viruses and other biomolecules A team of researchers based at the University of Manitoba, along with their collaborators at MDS Sciex and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, have won the third annual Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering. The prize includes $250,000 in funding for future research activities.
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February 02 2007
Giving nitroglycerin to women in premature labour improves their babies' health, Queen's study shows A Queen's-led study shows that giving nitroglycerin to women who enter labour early results in significant improvement to their babies' health. The improvement is most marked in babies who are born very prematurely (at 24 to 28 weeks).
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January 30 2007
Estrogen therapy for hot flushes challenged: progestin as effective as risk-laden estrogen Women seeking treatment for hot flushes can avoid health risks associated with estrogen by taking medroxyprogesterone, now demonstrated to be equally as effective as estrogen, according to research led by a University of British Columbia endocrinologist, who is also a member of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI).
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January 10 2007
STEM CELLS--science, ethics and politics at the forefront of biomedical innovation In the early 1960s, two researchers at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto performed a series of experiments that led to a remarkable discovery - and the 2005 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
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November 27 2006
FDA approves Enzon application The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has completed a review of an investigational new drug (IND) application by Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc. for the use of recombinant human Mannose-Binding Lectin (rhMBL) for the prevention and treatment of severe infections in patients with low levels of MBL undergoing liver transplant treatment.
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November 21 2006
Liponex research collaborators present data on CRD5 mechanism of action Liponex Inc., a biopharmaceutical company specializing in developing advanced prodaucts related to High Density Lipoprotein (HDL), often called good cholesterol, announced that a presentation by Shawn Hopewell and colleagues from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute entitled Phosphatidylinositol acts through mitogen and stress activated protein kinase pathways to stimulate secretion of apoA-I was made yesterday at the American Heart Association 2006 Scientific Sessions held in Chicago, IL.
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November 01 2006
Gastric cancer survival affected by poor assessment of lymph nodes Dr. Natalie Coburn, a surgical oncologist at Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre has found that fewer than one-third of gastric cancer patients have adequate lymph node assessments
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November 01 2006
Study to evaluate ultrasound in prostate treatment A clinical study by the Lawson Health Research Institute is investigating if High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) has the potential to treat prostate cancer with few side effects and minimal invasion.
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October 02 2006
Researcher Finds Target to Restore T-Cell Function A team of scientists from the University of Montreal and the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) has identified a defect in the immune response to HIV.
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October 02 2006
Bovine Genome Offers Help for Human Research Researchers from the Bovine Genome Sequencing Project have made available on international public databases the most complete and accurate genome sequence to date, an upgraded genetic map, and a new set of two million DNA base differences for use as DNA sequence polymorphisms.
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October 02 2006
UBC Team Identifies Possible Treatment for Alzheimer's, Down's Syndrome Dementia A team led by Dr. Weihong Song, PhD of the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute has identified new possibilities for treating Alzheimer's disease and dementia in Downs syndrome (DS) patients.
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October 02 2006
Older Blood Clot Treatment as Good as New Dr. Clive Kearon, PhD, professor of medicine at McMaster University has found that treating venous thromboembolism with unfractionated heparin injected subcutaneously works just as well as subcutaneous injections of more expensive, low-molecular-weight heparin.
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September 29 2006
Researcher Finds Target to Restore T-cell Function A team of scientists from the University of Montreal and the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) has identified a defect in the immune response to HIV.
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September 19 2006
Overweight Toddlers May Mean Overweight Youth While everyone things a pudgy baby is cute, parents may have reason to be concerned if they have a pudgy toddler.
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September 13 2006
DDT Exposure Shrinks Bird Brains Researchers at the University of Alberta have uncovered the first proof that natural exposure to a contaminant damages the brain of a wild animal.
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September 08 2006
A Step Closer to Tailored T-cell Therapy Researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have made a discovery that could lead to tailored T-cell therapy for those with immune system deficiencies.
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September 08 2006
Pain Medication, Injuries Linked Researchers with the University of Alberta have found that older farmers are at high risk for injury when they stop taking prescription pain medication.
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September 05 2006
Juice Reduces Alzheimer's Symptoms Maybe adults should take a lesson from kids by adding a juice box into their lunch routine.
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August 29 2006
$1.3M to Avian Flu Vaccine Development A $1.3-million US grant will fund the production of a new avian flu vaccine.
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August 22 2006
Lyme Disease Mechanism Uncovered A discovery made by researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (La Jolla, CA) could lead to a vaccine for Lyme disease.
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August 14 2006
Fidgeting Good for the Waistline If youre having trouble shedding some pounds, take heart. New research shows that losing weight may all be in your head.
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August 09 2006
UBC Team Uncovers Cure for Huntington's Disease in Mice Researchers from the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, led by Michael Hayden, PhD, have been able to cure Huntington's disease (HD) in mice.
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August 09 2006
To AIRE is Human, Researchers Find Research conducted by Terry Delovitch, PhD and colleagues from the Robarts Research Institute explains the role of a gene that may be essential to controlling autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes.
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August 08 2006
Shampoo Contains Chemical that Affects Brain Development Could shampooing be dangerous?
No, say researchers from the University of North Carolina |
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August 02 2006
Discovery Demonstrates Prostate Cancer Resistance To Drugs A discovery made by researchers from Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC) has uncovered why prostate cancer cells become resistant to hormone therapy.
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July 25 2006
Food Allergy Protein Found A study conducted at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, NY) has uncovered a protein that may be responsible for causing food allergies.
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July 17 2006
Screening Method Effective in Detecting Breast Cancer A method for screening bodily fluids for certain types of cells and their genetic blueprint has recently been discovered to be twice as effective at detecting breast cancer cells as traditional microscope methods.
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