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  • Researchers discover the eye’s hidden cleanup system

    Researchers discover the eye’s hidden cleanup system

    Newly identified lymphatic network could fundamentally shift how we understand and treat leading causes of blindness.

  • How globalization stoked fear of disease during the Romantic era

    How globalization stoked fear of disease during the Romantic era

    In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the word “communication” had several meanings. People used it to talk about both media and the spread of disease, as we do today, but also to describe transport—via carriages, canals and shipping.

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  • New deep diamond and barium minerals named after UBC researchers

  • B.C. is moving millions of frogs for construction—no one knows if they’re surviving

  • Some early herders didn’t quit fishing and foraging for a millennium after first keeping livestock

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  • Researchers discover the eye’s hidden cleanup system
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    Researchers discover the eye’s hidden cleanup system

  • Seatbelts still essential, but nearly 9 in 10 pregnant people didn’t achieve recommended seatbelt placement: study
    Health & Medicine

    Seatbelts still essential, but nearly 9 in 10 pregnant people didn’t achieve recommended seatbelt placement: study

  • Researchers discover new form of hereditary prostate cancer
    Health & Medicine

    Researchers discover new form of hereditary prostate cancer

  • Nearly two-thirds of Indigenous people report mistreatment during childbirth, first national survey finds
    Health & Medicine

    Nearly two-thirds of Indigenous people report mistreatment during childbirth, first national survey finds

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