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March 3, 2011
UBC Science researchers have identified a small virus that attacks another virus more than 100 times its own size, rescuing infected zooplankton from certain death in the process. The discovery provides clues to the evolutionary origin of some jumping genes found in other organisms.
The study, by...
March 1, 2011
UBC chemist Chris Orvig and evolutionary biologist Dolph Schulter have been awarded 2011 Killam Research Fellowships, among Canada's most distinguished research awards.
The funded research will focus on the preclinical discovery and testing of compounds that will slow, halt or reverse the cognitive...
March 1, 2011
UBC is gearing up once again for Celebrate Research Week! Now in its 11th year, Celebrate Research Week runs from March 4th to 11th, and features a variety of hosted discussion forums, poster sessions, seminars, open houses and symposia on relevant issues related to the outstanding research taking...
February 23, 2011
University of British Columbia geophysicists are offering a new explanation for seismic tremors accompanying volcanic eruptions that could advance forecasting of explosive eruptions such as recent events at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, Chaiten Volcano in Chile, and Mount St. Helens in...
February 14, 2011
UBC Science researchers investigating new materials and atmospheric aerosols, along with a former UBC graduate student studying evolutionary adaption, are among 13 recipients of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council prizes announced today.
"Our government is committed to developing,...
February 9, 2011
A researcher is found dead hunched over her lab bench, and seven suspects are in custody. Now it’s up to 30 high school students to determine who killed her.
That’s the premise for an innovative science outreach program hosted by the Graduate Student Association (GSA) at UBC’s Life Sciences...
February 8, 2011
University of British Columbia researchers have uncovered the unique survival mechanisms of a marine organism that may be tiny, but in some ways has surpassed sharks in its predatory efficiency.
Published today in the journal Nature Communications, the research team’s portrait of the microscopic...
January 26, 2011
A UBC organic chemist and oceanographer who studies the metabolites produced by marine organisms--often to help evaluate their potential as drug candidates--has been awarded UBC's premier prize for research.
Raymond Andersen, with the departments of Chemistry and Earth and Ocean Sciences, has been...
January 24, 2011
The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines has been decoded in a University of British Columbia study.
Also known as blue stain fungus for the stain it leaves in the wood of infected trees, Grosmannia clavigera is carried to the host trees by pine...
January 24, 2011
UBC researchers have produced the first map of the world outlining the ease of fluid flow through the planet's porous surface rocks and sediments.
The maps and data, published in Geophysical Research Letters, could help improve water resource management and climate modelling, and eventually lead to...
