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New research from UBC’s Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute explains why some people with Huntington disease develop symptoms a decade earlier and points to a promising treatment target.
Most Recent Stories
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Divided We Fall: New book explores polarization, citizenship and Canada’s democratic future
As democratic tensions rise globally, a UBC political scientist examines why Canada may be better positioned to resist deep division and what citizens can do to help strengthen democratic life.
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Study confirms permanent loss of Canada’s last Arctic epishelf lake
Loss of the millennia-old ecosystem shows that even the Arctic’s projected last ice refuge is vulnerable to rapid change.
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Science at the edge of the ice
Researchers returned to Milne Fiord year after year to monitor its ice shelf and the freshwater lake beneath the ice. Their measurements ultimately helped reconstruct how Canada’s last epishelf lake disappeared following the ice shelf’s 2020 breakup.
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Only known woolly dog pelt returns close to home and for the first time to Canada
The woolly dog pelt will be on loan from the Smithsonian Institution to the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) from September 2026 to August 2027.
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$40M gift to UBC is the largest ever to a Canadian school of nursing
Historic $40M donation from UBC alumni Matthew and Natalie MacIsaac will strengthen nursing education, research and clinical learning to help prepare the next generation of nurses and health-care leaders.
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Viral mayoral campaign ad about disabled sex exposes AI’s hazards for politics
National Observer
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Bears, caribou and other animals are messing with this researcher’s equipment, and he’s got photos to prove it
CBC
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Pumpkin farms ‘at the mercy of Mother Nature’ after extreme weather in Canada
Global News
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A Tlingit artist is on a mission to return a traditional artifact to its original home
CBC
