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Risk Management Frameworks For Workplace Safety

Risk Management Frameworks For Workplace Safety

As Canada and other countries develop strategies for economic recovery and returning to business, the challenge each government and business faces will be how to develop solutions that can mitigate COVID-19 spread and the risks to a safe return to places of employment.

Predicting the evolution of COVID-19 to help manage future outbreaks

Predicting the evolution of COVID-19 to help manage future outbreaks

As the world prepares for future waves of COVID-19, the ability to predict mutations in the novel coronavirus even before they emerge will be essential to stopping future outbreaks.

Coagulation Going Viral: Wisdom to Draw from Herpes Simplex Virus-1 Investigation

Coagulation Going Viral: Wisdom to Draw from Herpes Simplex Virus-1 Investigation

Cardio- and cerebro-vascular diseases remain the leading causes of death worldwide.

Email Etiquette in the Age of COVID-19

Email Etiquette in the Age of COVID-19

You suck at email! Sorry to be so blunt, but if you have been in academia even if only for a little while, chances are you have seen (or even adopted) some bad email habits.

Host Cellular Protein Substrates Of SARS-COV-2 Proteases

Host Cellular Protein Substrates Of SARS-COV-2 Proteases

The recent outbreak of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (2019-2020) leading to COVID-19 disease in China and worldwide has led to increased urgency in identifying strategies to mitigate the spread of coronavirus infection and treat infected individuals.

Lab-Grown Meat: Environmental, Ethical and Exciting

Lab-Grown Meat: Environmental, Ethical and Exciting

Scientists can now relish in the joy of farming, bringing fresh, ”homegrown” food to their family’s table! The relatively new field of science known as cellular agriculture focuses on the production of agricultural products from cell cultures.

Soil in wounds can help stem deadly bleeding

Soil in wounds can help stem deadly bleeding

New UBC research shows for the first time that soil silicates—the most abundant material on the Earth’s crust—play a key role in blood clotting.

CBR Magazine April 2020

CBR Magazine April 2020

The CBR April 2020 semi-annual magazine is out! Articles in this magazine were all written & edited by our talented Knowledge Translation Committee, a group made up of undergraduates, graduate trainees, PDFs, & RAs who are passionate about science communication.

April 2020: Notes from the CBR Director

April 2020: Notes from the CBR Director

When the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) team of editors and writers were compiling and laying all the fabulous stories, reports and photos for display in this issue of the CBR Magazine, the best parts of BC were revealing themselves.

Connecting the immunological dots: (Ca2+)n we do it?

Connecting the immunological dots: (Ca2+)n we do it?

When we think about how lymphocytes work, we tend to think that antigen presentation and signaling are the be-all and end-all of immune system activation and function.