Researchers at the Samuels Lab at UBC have engineered “inside-out” plants which produce cellulose on their surface.
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Chemotherapy is the current drug of choice to treat cancer. It kills cancer cells, while trying to do as little damage as possible to healthy cells. Now there might be a better way to fight cancer.
A UBC research team has successfully managed to create the first self-propelled powder to stop severe bleeding.
In a recent study published in the Nature, UBC researcher Michele Koppes and her team compared glaciers in northern Patagonia and in the western Antarctic Peninsula.
In the middle of campus there’s a small, unremarkable, concrete building with one locked glass door on its northwest corner labeled ‘Clean Energy Research Centre’. You’d never guess it’s home to one of Canada’s largest fuel-cell research groups, working internationally with major industry and science partners to bring fuel cell technologies to market.
“Don't underestimate yourself! And don't be afraid to take on leadership roles. In the words of Mindy Kaling, 'Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled.'”
A superconductor is a material that transports electricity with no resistance. But superconductors must be cold (about -272ºC cold, for gallium) to be superconductors.
Although several groups have tried and failed to create the graphene superconductor based on this model, the researchers were able to achieve the feat in a high vacuum environment (an area without air) at an extremely low temperature of -268°C.
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The researchers then took poop from three-month olds, who they knew developed asthma, and transferred it into mice. Mice with the transferred kid poop went on to develop high levels of asthma, mice with poop spiked with FLVR did not develop asthma.
As explored in a newly published paper, UBC researchers speculate that using “radio bursts” with unknown origins, they could determine the distance of cosmological bodies and shed light on a whole host of previously unknown information.
This year, UBC’s iGEM team worked on creating a genetically modified Gilliamella apicola (a type of bacteria that lives in bees' intestines) that can help bees combat colony collapse disorder.
On the week of September 21, the Beaty Biodiversity museum, along with the Woodward library, TRIUMF laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and other teams within UBC were collaborating to promote science literacy in a national science literacy initiative.
Alzheimer’s disease initiatives are starting to come to UBC campus with a student-organized initiative All Against Alzheimer’s. The initiative was started in early September and a team has been working on it since to bring the club to life.
“This was actually a study using a really neat combination of old[er] data and new[er] data,” said Dr. Catherine Johnson, an author of the study and professor in UBC’s department of earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences.