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Top 5 Reasons to Use Urine Preservative Over Freezing
Top 5 Reasons to Use Urine Preservative Over Freezing
Nikola Breberina
22 Aug 2022
Congratulations! You have collected your urine sample. What do you do now? Do you… Leave it at room temperature and risk degradation of precious DNA and RNA Freeze it at -80°C and lose…
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cross section of plum with plum pox virus (PPV)
A Rapid and Sensitive Method for Plum Pox Detection
The Norgen Team
11 Jul 2022
Plum pox is a devastating viral disease that threatens Niagara’s stone fruit industry. The disease is caused by the plum pox virus (PPV) of the genus Potyvirus. Plants that are susceptible to PPV…
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How Colorectal Cancer Is Diagnosed: From Symptoms To Emerging Methods of Diagnostics
Lea Milkin
24 May 2022
One of the most lethal cancers globally is colorectal cancer (CRC). Worldwide, it is ranked as the third most common cause of cancer-related death in men and women. CRC is defined as a…
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Fecal Metatranscriptomics - What's in Your Gut?
Fecal Metatranscriptomics - What's in Your Gut?
Sohaib Siddiqui
13 May 2022
Don't look now, but you're outnumbered by a factor of more than 10 to 1. You might not know it, but your body is basically an apartment building for a wide variety of microbes. Your skin,…
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Investigating the Role of Stool Derived Metabolites Found Within the Gut Microbiome
Lea Milkin
03 May 2022
In recent times, microbiome studies have rapidly increased in popularity, ranging in application from cancer to weight loss. While many human gut microbiome studies focus on genetic…
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How Tuberculosis Flies Under the Radar of Our Immune System
Nikola Breberina
25 Mar 2022
Did you know that Infections caused by bacteria remain one of the leading causes of death in lower-middle-income countries?1 In fact, one of the deadliest diseases is caused by a pathogen called…
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Advancing Multiple Myeloma Research with Tumour-Specific Signatures Found in Exosomes
Iva Laska
09 Mar 2022
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer of the blood that develops in the plasma cells in bone marrow. Plasma cells assist the immune system by producing antibody proteins as a response to bacterial…
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Exosome Therapeutics: Diagnostics and Treatment with Exosomes
Zak Mason
09 Feb 2022
Exosomes are a relatively recent discovery in medical history, having only been discovered independently in 1983. Six years before their discovery, extracellular vesicles (EVs), the overarching group…
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Recovering Genetic Material from Dried Blood Spots
Zak Mason
24 Jan 2022
Often, forensic investigators arrive at a crime scene after things have been sitting for a while. This usually means not only an increase in the "ew, gross" factor but also an…
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