Research Stories


Recent Research Stories From Across UBC

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Why abortion rates are rising abroad—but not in Canada

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Social isolation linked to poor diet in older women

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 Researchers at UBC’s faculty of medicine are using chicken eggs to study how childhood cancers respond to different treatments. Credit: Paul Joseph, UBC.


Researchers develop new way to match young cancer patients with the right drugs

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UBC researcher uses her pain to empower youth affected by violent crime

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How a UBC researcher is making government benefits easier to access

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Canada slowest in reporting bird flu at 618 days – but COVID shows we can do better

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IRES


Transforming chemical risk management with Indigenous expertise

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dna


How Canada is at the forefront of unpacking the potential of DNA data storage

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Jerilynn Prior


You are not alone: Challenging what we know about perimenopause symptoms and treatments

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Gina Ogilvie


HPV testing: A gamechanger in preventing cervical cancer

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Dr. Sean Michaletz is a 2025 Sloan Fellow in Earth System Science. Credit: Paul H. Joseph/UBC


Why ‘leaky’ plants could accelerate climate change

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Counting the days: A new way to measure disaster impact

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We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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