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Right Turn: Canadian connections to 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Various bloggers Biology and Life Sciences, Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science
Dr. Michel Sadelain, the “inventor of T cells” and a graduate of the University of Alberta, has won the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in life sciences. After completing his medical degree at the University of Paris, Dr. Sadelain earned his PhD in immunology at the University of Alberta, before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

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The art of science / the science of art

Le Beagle - CSBQ Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Environmental and Earth Sciences
By Kelsey Wilson, a MSc student at McGill University I did not follow the traditional path into environmental biology. Like many ecologists, I have always felt a strong connection to nature since childhood. However, after high school, my academic journey led to me studying fine arts. Driven by a deep curiosity about the natural world,...

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Pushing the boundaries of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: Insights from cutting-edge pre-clinical research

Jenny Ryan Biology and Life Sciences, General Science, Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science
Pushing the boundaries of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: Insights from cutting-edge pre-clinical research Transplantation Stem Cells Blood Thursday, March 28, 2024 Tanvir Hasan This blog was written by Tanvir Hasan, a senior research assistant in the lab of Canadian Blood Services research scientist, Dr. Hari Maganti, with collaboration from Ajay Ratan Pasala (PhD candidate) and...

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Playing the TrophIE game

Le Beagle - CSBQ Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Environmental and Earth Sciences
By Emmanuelle Barreau, a PhD student at the Université du Québec en Outaouais In May 2023, I participated at the Advanced Field School in Computational Ecology at the Couvent de Val-Morin, during which we studied prey-predator relationships in natural environments and the analytical methods for these complex datasets. Throughout the week, we were key players...

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What can we conclude from the rash of published papers with obvious fingerprints of ChatGPT?

Stephen Heard Biology and Life Sciences, General Science
Over the last few weeks, there’s been a small flood of cases where a published paper turns out to have clear fingerprints of its authors’ use of ChatGPT (or other so-called “artificial intelligence” tools). By “fingerprints” I don’t mean the kind of odd-but-acceptable phrasing ChatGPT sometimes comes up with. I mean laugh-out-loud ridiculous things like...

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