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  • Refining Sample Prep for Molecular Dx
    ... A group led by Stephane Evoy, Ph.D., at the National Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Alberta, is developing an alternative to antibody detection of microbes based ...
    10-1-2013
  • Human Urine Metabolome Study Envisions New Diagnostic Era
    University of Alberta scientists completed a seven-year study that ultimately determined the chemical composition of human urine. The project, which involved a team of nearly 20 ...
    9-6-2013
  • High School Whiz Kids Win Scientific Prestige . . . and Big Bucks
    ... in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, took home the top Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada prize of $5,000 earlier this year. His research project, mentored at the University of Calgary, ...
    8-1-2013
  • Quest Nabs Rheumatoid Arthritis Biomarker
    who is Medical Research Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology at the University of Alberta, Canada. "New data suggests that blood testing for 14-3-3η could assist in ...
    10-10-2012
  • Disassembling HIV
    In a finding with analogies to Homeland Security at the cellular level, researchers at the University of Alberta have identified a host gene whose activity blocks viral ...
    8-15-2012
  • Mining the Human Metabolome
    The human metabolome is considered the chemical equivalent of the human genome. In January a team led by David Wishart, Ph.D., at the University of Alberta, announced the ...
    8-14-2012
  • Investigators Identify Fifth Intracellular Transport Adaptor...
    The team was composed of scientists at the University of Cambridge and the University of Alberta. Reporting in PLoS Biology , Joel Dacks, Ph.D., along with Margaret Robinson, ...
    10-12-2011
  • The Human Metabolome Project
    One certainly can't accuse the University of Alberta researchers who designed The Human Metabolome Project of having a lack of initiative. "Our goal," the website proclaims, "is to ...
    5-15-2011
  • PTMs Progress Toward Designer Proteins
    ... Langdon is currently developing this system to produce protein-glycoconjugate vaccines. Other groups, particularly Professor Mario Feldman's at the University of Alberta are ...
    3-1-2010
  • Principles of Parasitism
    I'll be honest-this site isn't exactly pretty to look at. (But then again, are parasites supposed to be pretty?) Produced as part of a zoology course at the University of Alberta, ...
    12-1-2009
  • Making the Most of Transfection Processes
    ... Cellular Self-Defense Another variable in the success of transfection is the response of the cell itself. Charlie Y. M. Hsu, a graduate student at the University of Alberta, is ...
    11-15-2009
  • Metabolic Profiling Crucial to Unveiling Cellular Complexity
    ... professor in the departments of computing science and biological sciences at University of Alberta, and collaborators have established a fully searchable human metabolome database ...
    9-15-2009
  • Improving Delivery of RNAi Drugs
    RNA Using Oligonucleotides" to be held later this month in Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. ... of cellular and molecular medicine at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School ...
    2-1-2009
  • Gene that Encodes a Glucose Transporter Is Also a Urate Transporter
    Researchers from William Harvey Research Institute at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, the University of Alberta, and the University of Washington worked on ...
    10-7-2008
  • Investigators Identify Human Gene that Bars HIV in Culture
    Researchers from the University of Alberta and University of Pennsylvania discovered a gene that is able to block HIV. They say that TRIM22 blocks HIV infection in a cell culture ...
    2-29-2008
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  • Abstracts from the 12th Annual Extreme Cryo Meeting, University...

    Biopreservation and Biobanking
    Abstracts from the 12th Annual Extreme Cryo Meeting, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, February 3-4, 2012 Biopreservation and Biobanking
  • A Pilot Survey of Medical Students' Perspectives on Their Educational...
    Doreen Oneschuk, N. MacDonald, Sean Bagshaw, N. Mayo, H. Jung, J. Hanson
    Journal of Palliative Medicine
    Background: Graduating medical students from the class of 1999 from McGill University and the University of Alberta completed a self-administered, anonymous, pilot survey to ...
  • Undergraduate Medical Palliative Care Education: A New Canadian...
    Doreen Oneschuk
    Journal of Palliative Medicine
    Prior to 1 year ago, undergraduate medical palliative medicine education at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, was limited to a 1-hour didactic session and one-half ...
  • Using Games to Improve Functioning in Children with Fetal Alcohol...
    Jacqueline Pei, Kimberly Kerns, Bill Ferguson
    Games for Health Journal
    Abstract Researchers from the University of Victoria (Victoria, BC, Canada) and the University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) partnered in a study aimed at improving attention ...

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