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Researchers pinpoint date and rate of Earth's most extreme extinction
— 18 Nov 2011 17:09 | Geology and palaeontologyIt's well known that Earth's most severe mass extinction occurred about 250 million years ago. What's not well known is the specific time when the extinctions occurred. A team of researchers…
Even Canadian rocks are different
— 29 Mar 2011 15:37 | Geology and palaeontologyCanadians have always seen themselves as separate and distinct from their American neighbours to the south, and now they have geological proof…
Researchers step closer to treatment of virulent hospital infection
— 19 Mar 2011 14:24 | HealthClostridium difficile is a health problem that affects hundreds of thousands of patients and costs $10 billion to $20 billion every year in North America. Researchers from the University…
Research may lead to new and improved vaccines
— 14 Mar 2011 20:12 | HealthAlum is an adjuvant (immune booster) used in many common vaccines, and Canadian researchers have now discovered how it works. The research by scientists from the University of Calgary's…
Humans give prey the edge in food web
— 4 Mar 2011 14:51 | HealthA new paper by University of Calgary researchers, published today in PLoS ONE, demonstrates the edge given to prey in the 'space race' by human activity…
Scientists identify new marker for heart disease
— 22 Feb 2011 23:40 | HealthA new study from the Libin Cardiovascular Institute at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine is shedding light on an underlying cause of heart disease…
Researchers bust bat rabies stereotype
— 1 Feb 2011 20:24 | BiologyBats tend to have a bad reputation. They sleep all day, party at night, and are commonly thought to be riddled with rabies. A study by University of Calgary researchers has confirmed…
Canadian researchers discover new way to prevent infections in dialysis patients
— 27 Jan 2011 18:05 | HealthResearchers have discovered that a drug used to treat dialysis catheter malfunction in kidney dialysis patients may now also help prevent both malfunction as well as infections…
Neuroscientists learn how channels fine-tune neuronal excitability
— 26 Jan 2011 19:22 | HealthScientists in the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, have discovered a new mechanism that nerve cells (neurones) use to fine-tune their electrical…
Researchers find smoking gun of world's biggest extinction
— 23 Jan 2011 19:47 | EnvironmentAbout 250 million years about 95 per cent of life was wiped out in the sea and 70 per cent on land. Researchers at the University of Calgary believe they have discovered evidence to…