Breakfast Television interviewed Brett Finlay, a professor and microbiologist at UBC, about the potential of microbes.
Apr 9, 2019
MSN published an article about probiotics which mentioned Brett Finlay, a professor at UBC. The article previously appeared in Chatelaine.
Mar 5, 2019
Chatelaine spoke to Brett Finlay, a microbiologist at UBC and author of The Whole-Body Microbiome, for an article about probiotics. “The bottom line is that some probiotics work, for some […]
Mar 4, 2019
CBC quoted Brett Finlay, a microbiome researcher at UBC, in an article about the potential of fecal medicine.
Feb 19, 2019
CBC mentioned UBC scientist Brett Finlay in an article about E.coli. Finlay developed a vaccine which reduces the amount of E. coli cattle shed into the environment, but which was […]
Dec 3, 2018
Brett Finlay, a UBC microbiologist, spoke to CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks about probiotics. “They sometimes work for some things, but there’s an awful lot of hype that’s really unwarranted, […]
Nov 5, 2018
University of British Columbia microbiologists have found a yeast in the gut of new babies in Ecuador that appears to be a strong predictor that they will develop asthma in childhood.
Feb 17, 2017
Kids are urged to wash up before dinner, and a bottle of hand sanitizer on the desk is de rigueur for elementary-school teachers. But could all this hygiene actually be harming children?
Aug 10, 2016
New research finds that infants can be protected from getting asthma if they acquire four types of gut bacteria by three months of age.
Sep 30, 2015
UBC scientists have opened the doors to new research into malnutrition by creating an animal model that replicates the imbalance of gut bacteria associated with the difficult-to-treat disease.
Aug 4, 2015
Three UBC researchers and two UBC spin-off companies are recognized in the 2013 LifeSciences British Columbia Awards. LifeSciences B.C. is a not-for-profit industry association that supports and represents the greater life sciences community of British Columbia through leadership, advocacy and promotion of world-class science and industry.
Mar 5, 2013
Overall research funding to the University of British Columbia has increased by nearly 20 per cent over the previous fiscal year with university researchers attracting $200 million in the fiscal […]
Aug 7, 2001
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