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On Jun. 22, 2021, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) announced it had completed construction of the…
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On Dec. 18, 2020, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) announced it was providing advisory services and…
On Dec. 15, 2020, Aurinia Pharmaceuticals announced the funding and initiation of an open-label exploratory trial evaluating the…
On Feb. 25, 2020, a University of British Columbia (UBC) researcher was part of an international team working…
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On Nov. 13, 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced federal funding for the Institute for Advanced Medical…
On Mar. 2, 2017, scientists discovered the oldest evidence of life on Earth in fossilized microorganisms that are…
On Oct, 26, 2016, a team of researchers at the University of Arizona and University of Cambridge in…
On Nov. 19, 2015, AquaBounty Technologies announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the Company’s…
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On Feb. 27, 2014, the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH), a partnership between the University of…
On Mar. 27, 2013, researchers at the University of British Columbia and Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre,…
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In 1974, Professor Philip Seeman MD, PhD, DSc FRSC, Order of Canada, an ACNP Member Emeritus reported the…
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