Posts Tagged ‘genomics’
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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Mar. 21, 2012 | Filed under: Extra, News Feed | Tags: biobanks, bioethics, Brain Research Centre, BRC, CRC, Faculty of Medicine, FoM, genetics, genomics, health, incidental findings, National Institutes of Health, neurology, research ethics
UBC Neurology Prof. Judy Illes is among 25 international leading researchers recommending the handling of incidental findings in genomic research in a paper published online today in the journal Genetics in Medicine.
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Jan. 18, 2012 | Filed under: News Feed, News Tip | Tags: Australian Wine Research Institute, Chardonnay, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Genome, genomics, Prof. Hennie van Vuuren, Prof. Joerg Bohlmann, research, UBC Wine Research Centre
The University of British Columbia’s Wine Research Centre has launched an international collaboration with the Australian Wine Research Institute to sequence the Chardonnay grape genome.
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Jan. 24, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: environment, Forestry, FoS, genomics, Mountain Pine Beetles, research
The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines has been decoded in a University of British Columbia study.
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Sep. 20, 2010 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: Beaty Biodiversity Research Centre, Botany, CIAR, DNA, FoS, Genome, genomics, MSFHR, research
The world’s tiniest nuclear genome appears to have “snipped off the ends” of its chromosomes and evolved into a lean, mean, genome machine that infects human cells, according to research published today by University of British Columbia scientists.
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