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LAB PROFILE: The Ocean Frontier Institute
As champions of the deep, Canada's Ocean Frontier Institute is leading the charge on research into the health of marine ecosystems.
Read More »The stem cell assembly line
STEMCELL Technologies is one of Canada’s leading providers of cell culture media for research purposes, including reagents, recombinant cytokines and other tools for the maintenance of cell cultures, as well as a number of tissue and stem cell types.
Read More »Bringing the next great idea to market – and to society
Dr. Alli Murugesan applied a game-changing commercialization strategy to bypass academic barriers & won the Mitacs Global Impact Entrepreneur Award.
Read More »Discovery of adult neural stem cells
In 1992, a Canadian scientist, Dr. Samuel Weiss, from the University of Calgary, discovered neural stem cells in the adult brain.
Read More »Employee benefits and the power of affinity
For biotech firms, the ability to overcome these barriers is linked to the ability to capitalize on the market opportunity.
Read More »Plasma treatments are driving up the value of plastic labware
Altering the surface properties of polymer labware, manufacturers are improving the quality of test results while increasing value of products they create.
Read More »Breakthrough enables screening millions of human antibodies for new drug discovery
A paper just published in Nature Biotechnology outlines a pioneering method of screening a person’s diverse set of antibodies for rapid therapeutic discovery.
Read More »The Massey Medal awarded for personal achievement
In 1966, Alf Erling Porsild was awarded the Massey Medal by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Read More »Canadian Miron’s DNA binder is a breakthrough in cancer treatment
Caitlin Miron’s discovery of a novel DNA binder that could represent a breakthrough in cancer treatment won her the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation.
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