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    Rapid bedside test predicts sepsis with over 90 per cent accuracy

    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

  4. Drosophila Testacea

    First chromosome that cheats in both sexes identified in fruit flies

    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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    Supports for the UBC community

    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

  8. Magnetic field light effect with sparks in vector

    From insulators to metals: spin chains enter uncharted quantum regime

    April 22, 2025

    The compound—Ti₄MnBi₂—becomes only the second known metallic system with confirmed one-dimensional magnetism.A study by researchers from the University of British Columbia’s Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (UBC Blusson QMI) has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in the metallic… read more

  10. Mark MacLachlan looking inside of a petri dish in a lab, wearing a lab coat.

    A Q+A with UBC’s new Dean of Science, chemist Mark MacLachlan

    April 2, 2025

    Dr. Mark MacLachlan, Canada Research Chair in Supramolecular Materials and the new Dean of Science at UBC, discusses his path from small town-B.C. to UBC, his love of Hawaiian shirts, and the challenges and priorities facing the Faculty.You’re from a small town in B.C., went to UBC and then on to… read more

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