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Quantitative and Qualitative Content Analysis of Breast Cancer, Heart Disease, and Stroke Media Messages from Local Canadian Media
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This study examined media coverage of breast cancer (N=145) and heart disease and stroke (N=39) news articles, videos, advertisements, and images in a local Canadian context through quantitative and thematic content analyses. Statistical analysis (Cramer’s V) revealed significant differences in...
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Fall 2019
Within a tumour, only a subset of cells are able to initiate neoplasms when transplanted or following localization to different organs. These tumour-initiating cells, often called cancer stem cells (CSCs) due to their high cellular plasticity, were found to exhibit particular resistance to...
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Science Communication in Transition: Genomics Hype, Public Engagement, Education and Commercialization Pressures
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This essay reports on the final session of a 2-day workshop entitled ‘Genetic Diversity and Science Communication’, hosted by the CIHR Institute of Genetics in Toronto, April 2006. The first speaker, Timothy Caulfield, introduced the intersecting communities that promulgate a ‘cycle of hype’ of...
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Targeting Phosphatidylserine for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of Cell Death: Annexin V versus Phosphatidylserine-Binding Peptides
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There is currently no clinically approved, widely used molecular imaging agent for in vivo detection of cell death. Such an agent would be highly useful for early assessment of treatment efficacy in cancer patients, as well as for monitoring many other diseases in which cell death plays an...
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2012-01-25
Twenty journalists who regularly produce articles, televised reports and videos about the Alberta oil sands and issues pertaining to the oil sands participated in this study. Although most of the stories about the Alberta oil sands that appear in the news media have a business or economic focus,...
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2010-08-31
As the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century sees yet another drop in print newspaper paid circulation and a sharp increase in newspaper operations closures in North America, the current financial crisis and the emergence and increasing popularity of the Internet are immediately...
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Spring 2021
The transcription factors FOXC1, FOXQ1, and FOXF2 (FOX cluster on chromosome 6) are members of the forkhead family that play a role in a plethora of biological processes during development and tumorigenesis. Emerging studies in the last decade have suggested a role of the FOX cluster in breast...
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Spring 2020
To ensure faithful cell division, entry into mitosis must be inhibited in cells with damage or under-replicated DNA. Wee1 and Myt1 are two partially redundant kinases that inhibit mitotic entry through the phosphorylation of the Cdk1/cyclin B complex. Cdk1 is an essential mitotic kinase that...
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Spring 2012
In Canada, approximately 40% of the population will be diagnosed with cancer and 25% will die of this disease. In order to treat cancer more effectively, new prognostic and therapeutic targets need to be discovered. In breast cancer, the BH3 only protein BAD has been shown to correlate with...