Biology and Life Sciences
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Podcaster Andrew Lewin On Protecting the Oceans
Andrew Lewin – host of the How to Protect the Ocean podcast – on teaching the world about oceans, myth-busting fake facts and falling for the oceans from his home in Ontario. “This is what people should be talking about.” Shownotes: 3:25 How Andrew Lewin fell for the oceans and marine biology. 5:18 The first...
Bells and whistles
Miscellany
Last week I injured my knee on Cobble Hill Mountain. Turns out it’s the quad muscle that attaches to the inner knee that’s the culprit. The question is, will I be okay to go hiking in the Rockies at the end of the month? I’m still fiddling with my medications due to the high I...
Meet NCC’s 2024 summer interns: Rishona Vemulapalli
If I could summarize what I learned about Rishona from my conversations with her in three words, it would be that she is outdoorsy, self-driven and curious. Especially when it comes to her work at the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC).
Tender Paws: An Interview with Wendy Lyons Sunshine
Celebrating young researchers: A look back at CBR Research Day 2024
Celebrating young researchers: A look back at CBR Research Day 2024 Plasma Stem Cells Transfusion Blood Tuesday, September 10, 2024 Trainees Our partnership with the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is helping to train the next generation of researchers in transfusion science. This blog post highlights just some...
Great escape
Decode your Microbiota with NimaGen’s Full-Length Sequencing Kits
In high school, our teachers showed us that every living organism can be classified into two categories: prokaryotes — small, simple cells without nuclei — and eukaryotes — the bigger, denser cells with nuclei. Life felt much simpler then. Nonetheless, it shouldn’t surprise any of us that these distinctions aren’t sufficient to truly capture the...
