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Big data from tiny babies: New blood sample method could improve infant vaccines

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Honey bees can help monitor pollution in cities

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Are BC's Killer Whales getting enough to eat? New funding will help UBC scientists find out

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Achieving Paris climate target could net additional billions in fisheries revenue

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Chasing the mysteries of the universe with the top quark

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Accelerating access to an elusive medical isotope

Supplies of Ac-225 — a potential cancer-fighting isotope — are so scarce doctors have to scavenge decades-old nuclear weapons to produce it.

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#UBC alumna Priscilla Brastianos (BSc ’02) is using the latest genomics-driven techniques to better understand brain cancer. #health #science 🔬https://science.ubc.ca/alumni/notes/ubc-alumna-turning-tables-cancer Geochemist Kate E. Smith takes a honey sample from a hive to analyze at the Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research. Honey from bees can be used to help monitor pollution levels in cities. 🐝 https://science.ubc.ca/news/honey-bees-can-help-monitor-pollution-cities #ubc #ubcscience #science #bees Andrew Robertson, a #UBC PhD Physics student, is researching ways to increase production of Ac-225, a rare medical isotope. 🔬https://medium.com/ubcscience/isotope-4899c0b480b8 Time is running out! Enter our photo contest for the chance to win a $100 prize pack. 1.Take a photo that highlights what you love about UBC Science 2. Hashtag #iloveubcscience Contest closes February 28, 2019. Prize pack includes gift cards to Cineplex & Cactus Club worth $100 for the best entry. Students, alumni, professors, staff & supporters all welcome to enter. 📸 Enter our photo contest for the chance to win a $100 prize pack! 💗 1.Take a photo that highlights what you love about UBC Science 2. Share via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook 3. Hashtag #iloveubcscience 📸 Contest closes February 28, 2019. Prize pack includes gift cards to Cineplex & Cactus Club totalling $100 for the best entry. Students, alumni, professors, staff & supporters all welcome to enter. Enter our photo contest for the chance to win a $100 prize pack! 1.Take a photo that highlights what you love about UBC Science 2. Share via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook 3. Hashtag #iloveubcscience 📸 Contest closes February 28, 2019. Prize pack includes gift cards to Cineplex and Cactus Club totalling $100 for the best entry. Students, alumni, professors, staff and supporters all welcome to enter. 📸 UBC Science alumni at 2019 RoundUp strike a pose. 📸 #ubc #ubcscience

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UBC alumna is turning the tables on cancer

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