Research Stories


Recent Research Stories From Across UBC

Coral


Climate change could bring more severe bacterial infections, including in corals

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Researcher holding salmon in a boat on a lake


UBC study reveals 15 ways to improve salmon survival after capture-and-release

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Photo credit: Daniel Mirlea for Unsplash


Conserving nature can shield cities from floods

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Patient undergoing ultrasound scan


Cancer-like mutations in healthy cells point to origins of breast cancer

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mountain biking in Whistler


Spinal cord injuries from mountain biking exceed hockey, other high-risk sports

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youth using cellphones


How to reduce social media stress by leaning in instead of logging off

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UBC researchers Dr. Sara Beck and Dr. Paul Onkundi Nyangaresi join students and staff of Rianyabayo Memorial Academy.


UBC researcher brings clean water home to Kenyan school

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dialysis patient with IV


Blood vessel-like coating could make medical devices safer for patients

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Dr. Ilsa Cooke stands in front of the Green Bank Telescope. Photo credit: Dr. Brett McGuire.


New space molecule largest ever detected using radioastronomy

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Doctoral student Yi Chu Liang and assistant professor Dr. Jim Sun. Photo credit: Alex Walls.


Modified plant compound shows promise as next weapon in fight against drug-resistant TB

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Gender-diverse youth feeling more welcome at home, less welcome in public


Gender-diverse youth feeling more welcome at home, less welcome in public

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UBCO’s Dr. Hadi Mohammadi holds his latest innovation—a manufactured heart valve that combines the best of both tissue and mechanical technologies—that may eventually out-perform current valves.


Made in Canada breakthrough is a gamechanger in heart valve technology

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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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