Close to five million smuggled seahorses worth an estimated CAD$29 million were seized by authorities over a 10-year span, according to a new study that warns the scale of the trade is far larger than current data suggest.Published today in Conservation Biology, the study analyzed online seizure…
May 26, 2025
Canadian scientists have developed a blood test and portable device that can determine the onset of sepsis faster and more accurately than existing methods.Published today in Nature Communications, the test is more than 90 per cent accurate at identifying those at high risk of developing sepsis and… read more
May 14, 2025
Dr. Anka Lekhi—a UBC professor focused on making the transition into first-year chemistry more accessible—has won a West Coast Teaching Excellence Award. read more
May 9, 2025
Some genes just don’t play fair.Researchers have uncovered a ‘selfish’ X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance in both sperm and eggs. “Researchers have known about these selfish genes in males for nearly 100 years, and they've become textbook… read more
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