Canada in Biological News

Government of Canada announces funding for research on the H1N1 flu virus

This release is available in French . Toronto (June 5, 2009) - The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, is pleased to announce another measure to address the H1N1 flu virus. The Government of Canada will fund a national influenza research network focused on pandemic vaccine evalu...

From Canada to the Caribbean: Tree leaves control their own temperature, Penn study reveals

PHILADELPHIA - The temperature inside a healthy, photosynthesizing tree leaf is affected less by outside environmental temperature than originally believed, according to new research from biologists at the University of Pennsylvania. Surveying 39 tree species ranging in location from subtropic...

Private 'Rocketeers' reach for space -- science writer in Canada to explain

In the second space age, human spaceflight may no longer be the domain of governments. Dream-chasing entrepreneurs and clever engineers are aggressively blazing new trails into the heavens and preparing the world for an era of space tourism, ultra fast point-to-point earth travel and even orbiting...

12 McGill researchers awarded Canada Research Chairs

Twelve McGill University researchers exploring issues from green chemistry to biochemical pharmacology to international security and ethnic conflict are among the 62 newly appointed Canada Research Chairs announced September 10 by the Honourable Diane Ablonczy, Secretary of State (Small Business a...

GenWay Biotech obtains exclusive rights to AMDL's DR-70 cancer test in US and Canada

(San Diego, CA) May 15, 2009 GenWay Biotech, Inc., ( www.genwaybio.com ) a US-based diagnostic company which specializes in providing protein and antibody solutions, announced its partnership with AMDL, Inc., a US-based pharmaceutical company with major operations in China, regarding the distribu...

A new dinosaur species, Pachyrhinosaur lakustai, unveiled from Pipestone Creek, Alberta, Canada

The fossils revealed a herd of dinosaurs that perished in a catastrophic event 72.5 million years ago. The animals are characterized by a bony frill on the back of the skull ornamented with smaller horns. They also had large bony structures above their nose and eyes which lends them their name: Pa...

Health Canada approves cold and flu medicine

Health Canada, the Canadian government regulatory agency, has approved wide-ranging new health claims for COLD-fX®, the most popular cold/flu remedy in Canada. After an extensive review, the Natural Health Products Directorate (NHPD) ?a division of Health Canada responsible for evaluating the safe...

Growing evidence of marijuana smoke's potential dangers

... In a finding that challenges the increasingly popular belief that smoking marijuana is less harmful to health than smoking tobacco, researchers in canada are reporting that smoking marijuana, like smoking tobacco, has toxic effects on cells. Their study is scheduled for the Aug. 17 issue of ACS' Chemic...

delSECUR CORPORATION Announces Agreement to Purchase the Intellectual Property Assets of the Corporation

...PORATION. The consideration for such purchase will be in the form of a 49% interest in the shares of common stock of Q Tech Systems, Inc., an Ontario, canada Corporation. The primary asset to be acquired by Q Tech is the del-ID technology, a patented device and system of authenticating individuals t...

August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...and Pleistocene environments of Beringia Duane Froese et al., Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E3, canada Declining sea level during the last great glacial event resulted in the exposure of a continuous land bridge extending from Siberia in the west to ...

'Corrective genes' closer thanks to enzyme modification

...d that this fact played such a crucial role for resistance," says Albert Berghuis, a professor at the McGill University Department of Biochemistry and canada Research Chair in Structural Biology. "We can now harness this insight to further advance therapies for genetic diseases such as leukemia." ...

International research team seeks to unravel flatworm regeneration

...x Delbrck Center in Berlin, Germany together with researchers in the US and canada present the first comprehensive catalogue of small RNAs of planaria, elemen...of known planarian species the team of researchers from Germany, the US and canada chose Schmidtea mediterranea. Full 30 percent of the cells of this species ...

Wood stoves -- a viable home heat source?

...oving towards modern alternative energy options, while others have been turning to a more traditional method for a solution to these rising costs. In canada and the United States, wood burning stoves have been reevaluated as a potentially viable option for home heating. The case for modern woodstoves ha...

Climate change may spell demise of key salt marsh constituent

...d plants Limonium nashii (sea lavender), the edible plant Salicornia europaea (pickleweed) and Triglochin maritima , a popular food for Brent and canada geese as well as ducks and other migratory waterfowl. Gedan and her adviser, Mark Bertness, chair of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department...

World's largest ocean observatory takes shape

... canada is taking the world on a 25-year non-stop research...07. Led by the University of Victoria, NEPTUNE canada pioneers a new generation of ocean observation sys... as they happen. Land-based researchers across canada and around the world will use NEPTUNE...

Canadian researchers set to study impact of nanomaterials on aquatic ecosystems

...l Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the National Research Council of Canada, the National Institute for Nanotechnology, Environment canada and the University of Alberta, and includes in-kind contributions from VIVE Nano, Golder Associates and HydroQual Laboratories. ...

A Canada-wide technology platform for mapping the human interactome

... Montral, June 23, 2009 On June 18, the canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced the award of $9.16 million for th... This generous funding from the CFI will allow leading scientific groups in canada to collaborate in addressing this critical problem in biomedicine. This col...

American Chemical Society's Weekly Presspac -- June 17, 2009

...IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Milking" microscopic algae could yield massive amounts of oil Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research Scientists in canada and India are proposing a surprising new solution to the global energy crisis "milking" oil from the tiny, single-cell algae known as diatoms, renowne...

Geographic profiling applied to track hunting patterns of white sharks in South Africa

...e it is rarely observed in the wild. As a result, shark predatory behavior has remained much of a mystery. Now, researchers from the United States and canada are using geographic profiling -- a criminal investigation tool used to track a connected series of crimes and locate where serial criminals live -- t...

McGill University receives almost $63 million under CFI program to support five research projects

...Relations) of McGill University today welcomed the canada Foundation for Innovation's (CFI) investment of $3...homas, Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and canada Research Chair in Molecular Genetics is an ambitio...sform the field of organic chemistry. Dr. C.J. Li, canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry, virtually co-in...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 3, 2009

...ltural and Food Chemistry In a surprise discovery that may help boxed wine shake off its image as a gauche alternative to bottles, scientists in canada are reporting that multilayer aseptic cartons (a.k.a. 'boxes') may help reduce levels of substances that contribute odors to wine and can lower its qu...

Springer Series editor John Smol receives two prestigious biology awards

...pringer book series Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research. Smol is canada Research Chair in Environmental Change and is considered to be one of the w...nces and social sciences, the $100,000 prizes are presented annually by the canada Council for the Arts. Smol's award is in the field of Natural Sciences. ...

Ethanol production could jeopardize soil productivity

...ay impact the long-term productivity of soils. Agriculture and Agri-Food canada scientists at the Indian Head Research Farm in Indian Head and the Semiarid...losses in SOC and SON." Research is ongoing at Agriculture and Agri-Food canada to examine different types of crops for not only their grain and end-use qu...

Lenfest forage fish task force launched

...r. Edward Houde, University of Maryland Dr. Marc Mangel, University of California - Santa Cruz Dr. Daniel Pauly, University of British Columbia, canada Dr. Ellen K. Pikitch (Chair), Stony Brook University (New York) Dr. Eva Plaganyi-Lloyd, CSIRO, Australia Dr. Keith Sainsbury, University of ...

SETAC Europe addresses global ecosystem health in Gothenburg

...an wildlife connection". Tuesday 2 June, Mohiuddin Munawar from the Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences, Fisheries & Oceans in canada will address "Probing Aquatic Ecosystem Health: A journey through the Great Lakes"; and Wednesday 3 June, Tinka Murk from Wageningen University and th...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 20, 2009

... RELEASE Stronger material for filling dental cavities has ingredients from human body ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Scientists in canada and China are reporting development of a new dental filling material that substitutes natural ingredients from the human body for controversial ingred...

Skip this cocktail party

... Biology Department, where Montie was a graduate student and post doc, as well as Robert Letcher at Environment Canada. Montie traveled to Environment canada in Ottawa to learn the painstaking techniques required to extract and to quantify more than 170 different pollutants and their metabolites. He then br...

Folic acid to prevent congenital heart defects

...rt defects, so without the fortification we would probably have seen an increase in these defects." Since December 1998, all grain products sold in canada have been fortified with folic acid with 0.15 mg of folate per 100 g of flour. Thanks to provincial databases, the researchers showed that the rate of...

Conservationists seek to identify prime stopover sites for migrating birds

... in the southern coastal zone of Lake Ontario. The study specifically focuses on Neotropical migrants. These songbirds summer in the subarctic part of canada through northern New York and winter in Central America and the northern part of South America. The fieldwork conducted by the volunteers will help...

Treatment for extreme nausea, vomiting during pregnancy

...ad to quickly change the medication protocol to treat hyperemisis gravidarum (HG), or severe nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, due to a FDA and Health canada warnings," says senior researcher Anick Brard, a professor at the Universit de Montral's Faculty of Pharmacy and director of the Research Unit on Medi...

American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- April 29, 2009

...#4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mercury levels in Arctic seals may be linked to global warming Environmental Science & Technology Researchers in canada are reporting for the first time that high mercury levels in certain Arctic seals appear to be linked to vanishing sea ice caused by global warming. T...

Entrust's New Code-Signing Certificates Enhance Trust in Applications, Software Developers

...om or visit www.entrust.com . Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. In canada , Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Limited. All Entrust product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Entrust, Inc. or Entrust...

Conference tackles technology needed to address climate change

...rs will be The Right Honourable Edward Schreyer, former Governor General of canada and former Premier of Manitoba. He will speak at the final plenary on Frid...: www.cctc2009.ca CCTC 2009 is hosted by the Engineering Institute of canada as the principle organizer in partnership with nine of its member societies...

Canadian biomedical engineering pioneer receives international award

... vascular stents, vascular grafts, heart-assist devices, and heart-lung bypass systems almost commonplace. In the process, he has helped to establish canada as a biomaterials leader. John Brash, P.Eng., director of the School of Biomedical Engineering at McMaster University, and distinguished university...

Fossil evidence of missing link in the origin of seals, sea lions, walruses found in Canadian Arctic

... Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaResearchers from the United States and canada have found a fossil skeleton of a newly discovered carnivorous animal, Puijila darwini . New research suggests Puijila is a "missing link" in t...

Researchers report 'moderately large' potential for red tide outbreak in Gulf of Maine region

...s observed prior to last year's bloom, but still higher than the level preceding a major regional bloom in spring 2006 that closed shellfish beds from canada to Massachusetts Bay. The Alexandrium survey has been conducted each fall since 2004 as part of several research and event response projects fun...

Marine scientists warn of potential for spring, summer red tide outbreak in Gulf of Maine

...s observed prior to last year's bloom, but still higher than the level preceding a major regional bloom in spring 2006 that closed shellfish beds from canada to Massachusetts Bay. Fall concentrations of Alexandrium cysts are one of the indicators of the magnitude of a potential bloom in spring. In Oct...

Tufts students host Earth Day with groundbreaking ceremony for solar house

... Tufts University is a joint effort between the BAC and Tufts. Their groupnamed Team Bostonis competing against 19 other teams from the United States, canada and Germany in the 2009 Solar Decathlon sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Team Boston, the only entry from New England, formed last winter a...

Concordia University receives more than $22 million for genomics research

...oncordia. This investment results from the Genome canada Applied Genomics Research in Bioproducts or Crops ... will include major contributions from both Genome canada and Gnome Qubec. Dr. Tsang was awarded $17.4 mi... Gary Goodyear and Chairman of the Board of Genome canada Dr. Calvin Stiller. "This accomplishment confi...

World premiere in stem cell research in Montreal

...already in place," Guy Sauvageau pointed out. These tests will be conducted at Montreal's Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, one of the leading centres in canada where stem cell transplants are performed. "If only one of the ten proteins allows hematopoietic stem cells to be multiplied in humans, we will be abl...