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…
May 1, 2025
A new approach to drug design can deliver medicine directly to the gut in mice at significantly lower doses than current inflammatory bowel disease treatments.The proof-of-concept study, published today in Science, introduced a mechanism called ‘GlycoCaging’ that releases medicine exclusively to… read more
April 27, 2025
Our thoughts are with the Filipino community and everyone affected by the tragedy in Vancouver. Supports are available for UBC students, faculty and staff. read more
April 25, 2025
Fewer than one in 10 senior authors in a prestigious physics journal are women, according to a new study.Of 15 countries, Canada has the worst record. The 33 Canadian-led papers in Nature Physics in the last 10 years had zero senior authors who were women, according to a new study published by the… read more
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