Canadian scientists pen open letter to Trudeau government
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Scientists from all across Canada have come together to ask that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ramp up his efforts in reviewing energy projects, in the form of an open letter.
The letter, which was also...
CRISPR method of gene editing used on a human cancer patient...
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CRISPR, a relatively new method of editing genomes, has been used for the first time on a human patient in China.
Let’s break down this pretty amazing statement. CRISPR technology is primarily built to fight...
Employee at Winnipeg lab possibly exposed to Ebola virus
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An employee at Winnipeg’s National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease has potentially been exposed to the Ebola virus.
The employee who was working with six Ebola-infected pigs in a Level 4 lab on Nov. 7...
Meet the U of M’s first eco-marathon team
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The University of Manitoba officially has their first eco-marathon team.
UMecoMotion, which began as a U of M student group in September of this year, is a design team of 40 engineering students, all of...
First instance of dinosaur brain fossil found in England
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Scientists have discovered what they claim to be the very first instance of a dinosaur brain fossil.
The study, published in a Special Publication of the Geological Society of London, stated that through a chain...
Canadian astronomers claim star activity is ‘probably aliens’
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Stars behaving strangely have been suggested to be a sign of alien life.
Canadian scientist leading research on synthetic compounds to treat Alzheimer’s disease
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Is the answer to the Alzheimer’s disease epidemic computer-modelled molecules? Donald Weaver, senior scientist and director at the Krembil Research Institute in Toronto, believes it very well may be.
The University of Manitoba’s faculty of science...
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