Aida Razi’s last PhD thesis chapter now published online in the Nucleic Acids Research journal. This publication features the first cryo-EM structures obtained by the Ortega lab in the Titan Krios...
Dr. Kelly Sears, Research Manager at the Facility for Electron Microscopy Research (FEMR) is awarded the Microscopical Society of Canada Technologist Award 2019. This award recognizes his passion...
The telomerase holoenzyme responsible for maintaining telomeres in vertebrates requires many components in vivo, including dyskerin. Dyskerin binds and regulates the accumulation of the human...
Fibrillins are the major components of microfibrils in the extracellular matrix of elastic and non-elastic tissues. Fibrillin-1 contains one evolutionarily conserved RGD sequence that mediates cell...
How is it that fertilized chicken eggs manage to resist fracture from the outside, while at the same time, are weak enough to break from the inside during chick hatching? It’s all in the eggshell’s...
A new, state-of-the-art gross anatomy laboratory is in the works! Learn more about the Strathcona Building and our plans for a cutting-edge anatomy teaching laboratory HERE!
Unique collaboration of Dr. Dieter Reinhardt with geneticist Dr. Philippe Campeau at the Sainte-Justine Research Center leads to the identification of a new gene causing scoliosis and bone...