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1. UBC Researchers Find New Culprit in Alzheimer’s Disease: Too Many Blood Vessels

   September 1, 2011

   UBC scientists may have uncovered a new explanation for how Alzheimer’s disease destroys the brain – a profusion of blood vessels.While the death of cells, whether they are in the walls of blood vessels or in brain tissue, has been a major focus of Alzheimer’s disease research, a… read more

2. UBC Science Unveils $61.8M Sustainable Makeover to Biological Sciences Complex

   August 29, 2011

   A hub for biology research and education at the University of British Columbia has received a $61.8 million makeover that provides more than 2,200 undergraduates and 370 researchers, staff and graduate students with brand new research labs and classrooms featuring the latest sustainability… read more

3. New UBC Chemistry Facility 'Instrumental' in Undergraduate Learning

   August 16, 2011

   UBC unveiled the Department of Chemistry’s new Shared Instrument Facility today, a ground-breaking learning space designed to provide undergraduate students with unprecedented access to highly specialized equipment.The 262 sq. metre space, which combines a laboratory and student resource… read more

4. UBC Researchers Discover Key Mechanism that Regulates Shape and Growth of Plants

   August 16, 2011

   UBC researchers have discovered a key mechanism that -- much like a construction site foreperson -- controls the direction of plant growth as well as the physical properties of the biopolymers that plants produce. The finding is a major clue in a 50-year-long quest to explain how plants… read more

5. UBC researchers unveil advances at world's largest computer graphics conference

   August 8, 2011

   Advances in computer animation and simulation, high dynamic range 3D displays, and text-art design tools are being presented by UBC researchers at the world's largest computer graphics conference, being held in Vancouver this week. Among the technology and findings being presented by UBC computer… read more

6. UBC Researchers Create More Powerful “Lab-on-a-Chip” for Genetic Analysis

   July 26, 2011

   UBC researchers have invented a silicone chip that could make genetic analysis far more sensitive, rapid, and cost-effective by allowing individual cells to fall into place like balls in a pinball machine.The UBC device – about the size of a nine-volt battery – allows scientists to… read more

7. Mangrove Fish Uses ‘Bifocal’ Eyes To See Above and Below Water at the Same Time

   July 20, 2011

   A “four-eyed” fish that sees simultaneously above and below the water line has offered up a dramatic example of how gene expression allows organisms to adapt to their environment.Gregory L. Owens, a University of British Columbia graduate student, found a sharp divide between the upper… read more

8. UBC Physicists Quiet the Interference that Hampers Quantum Computing

   July 20, 2011

   UBC researchers have made a major advance in predicting and quashing environmental decoherence, a quantum mechanical phenomena that has proven to be one of the most formidable obstacles standing in the way of quantum computing.The findings--based on theoretical work conducted at UBC and confirmed… read more

9. Extinctions at the Top of the Food Chain Have Surprising Cascade Impacts on Ecosystems: UBC Researchers

   July 14, 2011

   The loss of large predator animals across the globe is having unanticipated impacts on processes as diverse as human disease dynamics, wildfires and biogeochemical cycles, according to new research by an international team of scientists that includes UBC zoologists.The report, published today in… read more

10. UBC ‘Megapixel’ DNA Replication Technology Promises Faster, More Precise Diagnostics

    July 4, 2011

    UBC researchers have developed a DNA measurement platform that sets dramatic new performance standards in the sensitivity and accuracy of sample screening.The advance could improve a range of genetic diagnostics and screenings where precise measurement is crucial--including the early… read more