Green Tea may help fight Lou Gherig’s disease Lou Gherig’s disease, formally known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is perhaps the best known in a family of neuromuscular diseases that affect around 3,000 Canadians a year. It is generally fatal. But, like many medical mysteries, researchers are progressing towards eventual treatment and cure. The latest [...]
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The famous example of Alexander Fleming’s mouldy petri dish teaches us that even a failed experiment has the potential to deliver something new and exciting. Seventeen-year-old Julie Xu and her friend Annie Wang, 18, will vouch for that following their win in the Calgary regional judging of this year’s Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge. For while the [...]
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Melanie Gallant of Ecole Francois Buote High School in Charlottetown, PEI captured 1st Place. Melanie was one of 10 students to compete in the challenge that encourages the pursuit of studies and careers in the exciting field of biotechnology. Her winning project entitled ‘Gender-Bender Pesticides’ – Using spiggin gene expression in threespine stickleback to screen [...]
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Top Student Biotech Projects from 14 City, Regional Contests In Final Canada-wide Competition Judged by Experts at NRC Results Announced 1 p.m. EDT Weds. May 6 Announcement of Canada’s top student projects in biotechnology will take place on a media teleconference from National Research Council headquarters, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May [...]
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For most of the brilliant young Canadians who enter the Sanofi-Aventis Biotalent Challenge (SABC), the lure is the chance to undertake significant research in a real laboratory. For 18-year-old Caitlin Martin Newnham, however, the motivation was much more personal. Caitlin was named the winner of this year’s SABC for Southwest Ontario for her project investigating [...]
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1st place: $3,000 cash prize and $1,500 entrance scholarship to The University of Western Ontario Caitlin Martin Newnham Project Title: The development of effective Capsaicin admixtures to reduce initial pain signals from TRPV1 ion channels using Hirudo medicinalis, a novel invertebrate model for pain research Grade 12 A.B. Lucas Secondary School, London, Ontario Mentor: Dr. [...]
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Charlottetown Rural High School – 2 projects, 3 students Gayani Gunathilake, KangYoo Hee Agatha “Characterization of Antibodies Responsible for Warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia in Dogs” Mentor: Marianna Kulka Emma Trivett “Treatment of Sea Lice Using Emamectin Benzoate” Mentor: John Burka,Monique Saleh Francois Buote High School – 1 project, 1 student * Melanie Gallant “L’exploration des [...]
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Winning students and supervising teachers Frontier Collegiate in Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, and Swan Valley Regional Secondary School in Swan River, Manitoba, commemorate the first year’s competition in of the Northern SABC program after the awards luncheon in The Pas, Manitoba. In its second year, the Northern Manitoba Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge 2008/2009 is coordinated by MindSet, [...]
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Ground-breaking research by three Grade 12 students from St. Elizabeth Catholic High School has earned the first place prize in the 2009 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge (SABC) in the Greater Toronto region. “High Frequency Ultrasound Analysis of Apoptosis in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells in Vitro” Alessandro Caroti, Ellie Shuo Jin, and Hans Tee St. Elizabeth Catholic [...]
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British Columbia – Mopping up dead cells key to boosting cancer, arthritis treatments (pdf) Calgary – Dramatic hope for stem cell therapy, thanks to Calgary student, 17 (pdf) Canada North – Investigating cancer rates in northwestern Manitoba (pdf) Edmonton – Twins use biotechnology to try and prevent the spread of cancer cells (pdf) Nova Scotia [...]
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Green Tea may help fight Lou Gherig’s disease Lou Gherig’s disease, formally known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is perhaps the best known in a family of neuromuscular diseases that affect around 3,000 Canadians a year. It is generally fatal. But, like many medical mysteries, researchers are progressing towards eventual treatment and cure. The latest [...]
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The famous example of Alexander Fleming’s mouldy petri dish teaches us that even a failed experiment has the potential to deliver something new and exciting. Seventeen-year-old Julie Xu and her friend Annie Wang, 18, will vouch for that following their win in the Calgary regional judging of this year’s Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge. For while the [...]
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Melanie Gallant of Ecole Francois Buote High School in Charlottetown, PEI captured 1st Place. Melanie was one of 10 students to compete in the challenge that encourages the pursuit of studies and careers in the exciting field of biotechnology. Her winning project entitled ‘Gender-Bender Pesticides’ – Using spiggin gene expression in threespine stickleback to screen [...]
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Top Student Biotech Projects from 14 City, Regional Contests In Final Canada-wide Competition Judged by Experts at NRC Results Announced 1 p.m. EDT Weds. May 6 Announcement of Canada’s top student projects in biotechnology will take place on a media teleconference from National Research Council headquarters, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May [...]
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For most of the brilliant young Canadians who enter the Sanofi-Aventis Biotalent Challenge (SABC), the lure is the chance to undertake significant research in a real laboratory. For 18-year-old Caitlin Martin Newnham, however, the motivation was much more personal. Caitlin was named the winner of this year’s SABC for Southwest Ontario for her project investigating [...]
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1st place: $3,000 cash prize and $1,500 entrance scholarship to The University of Western Ontario Caitlin Martin Newnham Project Title: The development of effective Capsaicin admixtures to reduce initial pain signals from TRPV1 ion channels using Hirudo medicinalis, a novel invertebrate model for pain research Grade 12 A.B. Lucas Secondary School, London, Ontario Mentor: Dr. [...]
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Charlottetown Rural High School – 2 projects, 3 students Gayani Gunathilake, KangYoo Hee Agatha “Characterization of Antibodies Responsible for Warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia in Dogs” Mentor: Marianna Kulka Emma Trivett “Treatment of Sea Lice Using Emamectin Benzoate” Mentor: John Burka,Monique Saleh Francois Buote High School – 1 project, 1 student * Melanie Gallant “L’exploration des [...]
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Winning students and supervising teachers Frontier Collegiate in Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, and Swan Valley Regional Secondary School in Swan River, Manitoba, commemorate the first year’s competition in of the Northern SABC program after the awards luncheon in The Pas, Manitoba. In its second year, the Northern Manitoba Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge 2008/2009 is coordinated by MindSet, [...]
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Ground-breaking research by three Grade 12 students from St. Elizabeth Catholic High School has earned the first place prize in the 2009 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge (SABC) in the Greater Toronto region. “High Frequency Ultrasound Analysis of Apoptosis in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells in Vitro” Alessandro Caroti, Ellie Shuo Jin, and Hans Tee St. Elizabeth Catholic [...]
{ 0 comments }
British Columbia – Mopping up dead cells key to boosting cancer, arthritis treatments (pdf) Calgary – Dramatic hope for stem cell therapy, thanks to Calgary student, 17 (pdf) Canada North – Investigating cancer rates in northwestern Manitoba (pdf) Edmonton – Twins use biotechnology to try and prevent the spread of cancer cells (pdf) Nova Scotia [...]
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