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Mitochondrial Adaptations and Homeostasis: Student Research from the MHRC
The Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC) is one of Canada's leading innovators in muscle physiology research. In this blog post, we finish our series of interviews with student researchers at the MHRC and learn more about their research objectives, findings, and goals.
Is DNA Vaccination the Future of Type 1 Diabetes Prevention and Management?
Given the fact that type 1 diabetes can vary considerably between individuals, a precision medicine-based therapeutic approach could revolutionize clinical care. Earlier this year, Postigo-Fernandez et al. evaluated a precision medicine approach to DNA vaccination in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes, which we review in this blog post.
Industry Insights with Crown Bioscience: In Vitro Technologies for Studying the Cancer-Immunity Cycle
In this episode of Industry Insights, Rajendra Kumari, PhD, and Gera Goverse, PhD, from Crown Bioscience answer questions about in vivo, in vitro, and ex vivo technologies and methods that can be used for immuno-oncology research along each step of the cancer-immunity cycle.
Sugar, Spice, and a Troubling Vice: Cardiovascular and Cancer Risk with Artificial Sweeteners
Artificial sweeteners appear to be the perfect solution to many of the health problems associated with high sugar consumption, but two recent publications may change the public's opinion on these sugar substitutes.
Industry Insights with Chris Rand from Aurora Scientific
This episode of Share Science features Chris Rand, MSc, sales and marketing manager at Aurora Scientific. In this interview, Chris shares Aurora Scientific’s history, their journey within the preclinical research world, and their advance into the neuroscience space.
Mitochondrial Contributions to Muscle Weakness: Student Research from the MHRC
The Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC) is one of Canada's leading innovators in muscle physiology research. In this blog post, we continue our series of interviews with student researchers at the MHRC and learn more about their research objectives, findings, and goals.
Industry Insights with Amy Sheng on Nanobodies
This episode of Share Science features Amy Sheng from Sino Biological, who shares how nanobodies are expected to revolutionize antibody-based drug therapies for a wide range of pathological conditions and especially cancer immunotherapy!
Clearing the Brain Fog: Long COVID and Cognitive Impairment
One common post-COVID symptom is brain fog or "COVID fog," which may affect up to 25% of recovered individuals. Given the global prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and the detrimental impact of such cognitive impairment, the public health implications are considerable. Fernández-Castañeda et al. recently examined the underlying neurological changes associated with COVID fog, which we review in this blog post.
Fright or Delight? Dopamine-Mediated Fear Response in the Amygdala
Since little is known about how dopamine affects aversive learning in humans, Frick et al. recently sought to describe the role of dopamine in fear memory formation within the human amygdala, which we review in this blog post.
The Future of Muscle Physiology: Student Research at the MHRC
The Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC) is home to many researchers who push the boundaries of muscle physiology. In this blog post, we summarize an interview with three students from the Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC) at York University.
Industry Insights with Trent Lund on the ANY-maze Operant Interface
This episode of Share Science features Trent Lund from Stoelting Co., who shares some of Stoelting's latest developments such as the deceptively simple and surprisingly powerful ANY-maze, a behavioral tracking software!
Talking Real Science with Brent Sinclair
This episode of Share Science features Brent Sinclair, PhD, a biology professor at Western University who researches insect thermal biology and organizes career events for graduate students. In this interview, Brent shares why these opportunities are so important for students as they get close to finishing their degrees, as well as his career path and passions in and out of the lab.
Protocol Preview: Creating an Artificial Human Thymus in Mice
The majority of treatments for immunodeficiencies are temporary fixes, in part due to a lack of preclinical models that can accurately predict immune responses in humans. However, a novel model recently published in Nature Methods has potential to greatly improve future immune response studies, which we review in this blog post.
Investigating Muscle Weakness and Fatigue with the MHRC
The Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC) is home to many researchers who push the boundaries of muscle physiology. For this blog, we summarize interviews with two professors from the MHRC who investigate the mechanisms of muscle weakness and fatigue: Christopher Perry and Arthur Cheng.
Talking Real Science with Chris Perry
This episode of Share Science features Christopher Perry, PhD, an associate professor at York University’s School of Kinesiology & Health Science, who shares his career path, but also his ideas and goals of creating a contract research organization (CRO) to further help those with muscle disease and to provide more opportunities for his trainees.
