News Release – Contact: Mr. Terry Collins, +1-416-878-8712; +1-416-538-8712; terrycollins@rogers.com For release: 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, April 27, 2010 At 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday April 27, Canada’s top student projects in biotechnology research will be announced at National Research Council headquarters, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa. Media are invited to attend the announcement in person or [...]
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Communiqué – Renseignements : M. Terry Collins, +1-416-878-8712; +1-416-538-8712; terrycollins@rogers.com Diffusion : 13 h (HAE), le mardi 27 avril 2010 Le mardi 27 avril, à 13 h (HAE), les meilleurs projets de recherche en biotechnologie réalisés par des étudiants canadiens seront dévoilés à l’administration centrale du Conseil national de recherches, au 100 de la promenade [...]
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2010 Manitoba Senior Project winner Binudith Warnakulasooriya, Fort Richmond Collegiate, Project: “Genetic Variations in Fatty Acid Denaturase Genes and their Association with the Composition of Essential Omega 3 & 6 Fatty Acids in Flax”. “Bin did it again! He repeats as the SABC Manitoba Senior champ. Bin will compete April 26 & 27 at the [...]
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Ovarian cancer is the most serious of all gynecological cancers. Over 2500 Canadian women are diagnosed every year and every year 1,700 women succumb to this disease. Like many cancers, ovarian cancer involves the inexplicable runaway growth of blood vessels and cells. Finding a way to slow or stop that runaway growth is something that [...]
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At just 14, Rui Song has become a fixture on the winner’s list in the Saskatchewan regional SABC. While still at Greystone Heights Public School, she won the Junior Division twice – in 2008 and 2009 – and the streak continued this year, Rui’s Grade 9 year at Walter Murray Collegiate Institute. Her winning project [...]
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The number of Canadians with Alzheimer’s disease may double to 1 million by 2025, according to predictions. That’s motivation enough for two science prodigies from Ste. Foy to test a new treatment based on a coffee extract called SIG 1012. One cause of Alzheimer’s is thought to be an excess of phosphate attached to a [...]
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When most people think about the impact of climate change on Canada’s Arctic biodiversity they think about the plight of the polar bears. Adrian Howie thinks about the other end of the food chain – Arctic algae. His interest began with an investigation into the effect of increased carbon dioxide levels on microalgae, a project [...]
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The camelina plant has seemed to many North Americas nothing more than an invasive weed. Taylor Henkelman, of Swan River, Manitoba, however, sees a valuable resource. Camelina is drought resistant, doesn’t mind the cold, needs virtually no pesticides to thrive, crowds out weeds and could have a variety of uses as an edible oil with [...]
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For the first 11 years of his school life, Zachary Quinlan had never had much time for science. He’d never entered a science fair or competition, his interest limited to getting good grades in his science courses. “My twin brother, Joshua, was always the science guy,” says Zachary, 17. “I’m more interested in writing and [...]
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More Canadians are admitted to hospitals with lung disease than any other chronic illness, including heart attack. Lung disease, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is now the world’s 4th leading cause of death. Edmonton’s Moses Fung decided to see if he could find a new treatment, using cells from lung blood vessels. Previous research [...]
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News Release – Contact: Mr. Terry Collins, +1-416-878-8712; +1-416-538-8712; terrycollins@rogers.com For release: 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, April 27, 2010 At 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday April 27, Canada’s top student projects in biotechnology research will be announced at National Research Council headquarters, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa. Media are invited to attend the announcement in person or [...]
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Communiqué – Renseignements : M. Terry Collins, +1-416-878-8712; +1-416-538-8712; terrycollins@rogers.com Diffusion : 13 h (HAE), le mardi 27 avril 2010 Le mardi 27 avril, à 13 h (HAE), les meilleurs projets de recherche en biotechnologie réalisés par des étudiants canadiens seront dévoilés à l’administration centrale du Conseil national de recherches, au 100 de la promenade [...]
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2010 Manitoba Senior Project winner Binudith Warnakulasooriya, Fort Richmond Collegiate, Project: “Genetic Variations in Fatty Acid Denaturase Genes and their Association with the Composition of Essential Omega 3 & 6 Fatty Acids in Flax”. “Bin did it again! He repeats as the SABC Manitoba Senior champ. Bin will compete April 26 & 27 at the [...]
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Ovarian cancer is the most serious of all gynecological cancers. Over 2500 Canadian women are diagnosed every year and every year 1,700 women succumb to this disease. Like many cancers, ovarian cancer involves the inexplicable runaway growth of blood vessels and cells. Finding a way to slow or stop that runaway growth is something that [...]
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At just 14, Rui Song has become a fixture on the winner’s list in the Saskatchewan regional SABC. While still at Greystone Heights Public School, she won the Junior Division twice – in 2008 and 2009 – and the streak continued this year, Rui’s Grade 9 year at Walter Murray Collegiate Institute. Her winning project [...]
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The number of Canadians with Alzheimer’s disease may double to 1 million by 2025, according to predictions. That’s motivation enough for two science prodigies from Ste. Foy to test a new treatment based on a coffee extract called SIG 1012. One cause of Alzheimer’s is thought to be an excess of phosphate attached to a [...]
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When most people think about the impact of climate change on Canada’s Arctic biodiversity they think about the plight of the polar bears. Adrian Howie thinks about the other end of the food chain – Arctic algae. His interest began with an investigation into the effect of increased carbon dioxide levels on microalgae, a project [...]
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The camelina plant has seemed to many North Americas nothing more than an invasive weed. Taylor Henkelman, of Swan River, Manitoba, however, sees a valuable resource. Camelina is drought resistant, doesn’t mind the cold, needs virtually no pesticides to thrive, crowds out weeds and could have a variety of uses as an edible oil with [...]
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For the first 11 years of his school life, Zachary Quinlan had never had much time for science. He’d never entered a science fair or competition, his interest limited to getting good grades in his science courses. “My twin brother, Joshua, was always the science guy,” says Zachary, 17. “I’m more interested in writing and [...]
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More Canadians are admitted to hospitals with lung disease than any other chronic illness, including heart attack. Lung disease, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is now the world’s 4th leading cause of death. Edmonton’s Moses Fung decided to see if he could find a new treatment, using cells from lung blood vessels. Previous research [...]
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