Posts Tagged ‘FoS’
May. 8, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: avian flu, BCCDC, Biomedical Research Centre, bird flu, Canadian Institute for Health Research, CIHR, Faculty of Science, flu, FoS, H5N1, health, HIN1, influenza, research excellence, swine flu, universal flu vaccine
University of British Columbia researchers have found a potential way to develop universal flu vaccines and eliminate the need for seasonal flu vaccinations.
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Apr. 18, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: environment, Faculty of Science, fisheries, FoS, health, jellyfish, oceans, sustainability
Jellyfish are increasing in the majority of the world’s coastal ecosystems, according to the first global study of jellyfish abundance by University of British Columbia researchers.
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Apr. 5, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: ambergris, cosmetics, environment, Faculty of Forestry, Faculty of Science, FoS, fragrance, Genome BC, Genome Canada, genomics, Michael Smith Laboratories, perfume, sperm whales, sustainability
University of British Columbia researchers have identified a gene in balsam fir trees that could facilitate cheaper and more sustainable production of plant-based fixatives and scents used in the fragrance industry and reduce the need for ambergris, a substance harvested from whale barf.
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Apr. 2, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: CFI, CIfAR, CRC, Faculty of Science, FoS, NSERC, Physics, Quantum Matter Institute, superconductor
An international team that includes UBC physicists has used ultra-fast laser pulses to identify the microscopic interactions that drive high-temperature superconductivity.
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Apr. 1, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: CRC, evolution, Faculty of Science, FoS, mate preference, sexual selection, sustainability, zoology
Picky females play a critical role in the survival and diversity of species, according to a Nature study by researchers from the University of British Columbia and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria.
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Mar. 16, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: AllerGen, antibiotics, asthma, Biomedical Research Centre, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, children, CIHR, FoS, Genome British Columbia, health, Michael Smith Laboratories, Microbiology and Immunology
Widely used antibiotics may increase incidence and severity of allergic asthma in early life, according to a University of British Columbia study.
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Feb. 5, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: CIHR, FoS, health, HIV, malaria, MSFHR, Nature Immunology, TB, vaccines
University of British Columbia researchers have discovered the molecular pathway that enables receptors inside immune cells to find, and flag, fragments of pathogens trying to invade a host.
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Jan. 5, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: CIHR, Denge, FINDER, FoS, health, Heptitus C, MSFHR, PLoS Pathogen
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found a new way to block infection from the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the liver that could lead to new therapies for those affected by this and other infectious diseases.
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Dec. 6, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: astronomy, CFI, FoS, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, learning, SCUBA-2, space camera, space telesceope
University of British Columbia scientists have helped build the world’s largest astronomy camera with an internal temperature colder than anything else in the Universe.
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Nov. 28, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: barnacles, biodiversity, climate change, FoS, mussels, San Juan Islands, Science, Vancouver Island
The biodiversity loss caused by climate change will result from a combination of rising temperatures and predation – and may be more severe than currently predicted, according to a study by University of British Columbia zoologist Christopher Harley.
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