Canmore High Schoolers are Sorting Plastic with Biology
Climate change is a hot topic recently (pun not intended). I think the next generation of young innovators is becoming increasingly aware of how we’re affecting our environment. So I don’t think it’s a coincidence that all three high school teams this year have focused on some aspect of waste management. The iGEM team from […]
High River Teens are Fighting Fatbergs
High schools have to be resourceful. Not all of them have access to a nearby university to gain access to things like autoclaves, centrifuges, and shaking incubators. That didn’t stop the Notre Dame Collegiate high school iGEM team in High River, though. These eight students are part of an after-school synthetic biology club to engineer […]
Lethbridge High Schoolers are Tackling Tailings Ponds
One thing I love about the iGEM competition is seeing how students get engaged with real-world problems. I think a lot of Albertans will appreciate the challenges that the Lethbridge High School iGEM team decided to take on this year. This year, they’re tackling the remediation of oil sands tailings ponds. But what’s more interesting […]
Packaging Precious Goods with Lethbridge Undergrads
I buy a lot of things online these days. It’s just so convenient to find something on Amazon and trust that it’ll get delivered to my doorstep at some point. But if you think about it, there’s a lot of stuff that happens behind the scenes to get packages to their destinations. This is a […]
Saving the Bees with UAlberta Undergrads
I have a love-hate relationship with bugs. I know they’re super important to the ecosystem, but I just cannot stand being anywhere near them. For example, I saw a spider in my house the other day and now I’m a little wary about the stove where I saw it crawl behind. So I’m really not […]
Towards Safer Gene Therapy with Calgary Undergrads
Genetic engineering isn’t easy. Sure, modern synbio techniques are easier than techniques of yore, but there are still a lot of challenges that researchers face. Take gene therapy and precision medicine, for example. Very hot topics, because you can customize therapies to an individual person. You can account for the idiosyncrasies of an individual’s body, […]
Spotlight: KMT Hepatech Inc.
I was fortunate enough to get a chance to sit down a while back with Svetlana Sapelnikova, the VP of Business Development Strategy at KMT Hepatech Inc. KMT is an Edmonton-based service company that was recently acquired by the PhoenixBio Group back in December of 2017. I was interested in learning more about their recent […]