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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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