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Friday Science Review: January 30, 2009
Interesting science developments in and from Canada this week: A report from CBC News last Friday described an announcement by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) of a clinical trial in...
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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Super Provincial Genomics Funding!!
You may remember Genome Canada’s reaction to the 2009 Canadian Federal budget. Here’s one bit from ScienceInsider at the time: Researchers funded by Genome Canada … are reacting with shock to news...
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Friday Science Review: Screening Edition
Early Screening for Breast Cancer Risk: A group of Canadian researchers showed that using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging, not the Ministry of Research and Innovation) to estimate breast tissue density...
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Brain Drain and Ontario Genomics Funding: Globe and Mail Prefers to Hear the...
On the front page of the Globe and Mail this morning: Top AIDS researcher lured away, urges Harper ‘soul-searching’, citing $148 million in cuts to the Canadian funding agencies. Buried several links...
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Post-Vacation Brain Dump: Canadian Developments
Here’s a bit of Canadiana to start off the catching up: MRI Minister Wilkinson gave a speech teeing up the Ontario government’s plan to revamp the Ontario Commercialization Network into a more...
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OBIO Panel Presents OETF and BIP Information
The Ontario Bioscience Industry Organization (OBIO) and the Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI) co-hosted an event a few days ago entitled: “Funding Opportunities in 2009-2010 for Bioscience...
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Friday Science Review: May 28, 2010
A Map to Better Beer? The key signaling protein-protein interactions in yeast have been mapped. Mass spectrometry was used to discover the global network between protein kinases and phosphatases to...
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