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Genetic study investigates how mosquitoes transmit malaria
January 6, 2015By determining the genetic sequence of 16 types of mosquitoes (Anopheles genus), an international research team, including researchers from SFU, has contributed knowledge on how these mosquitoes adapt to humans as the primary host of malaria. The international research team consisted of over 100 biologists, immunologists, infectious disease specialists, computational mathematicians, and geneticists, and had its findings published in Science Express. While the presence of malaria in North America and Europe is minimal, it is endemic in several areas around the equator and has high fatality rates in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. However, only a few dozen of the…
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Bed bug traps may mean end to persistent pests
January 6, 2015After enduring 180,000 bed bug bites over eight years of study, an SFU research team has developed the world’s first tangible bed bug bait and trap. Bed bugs naturally produce a set of chemical attractants, or pheromones, that signal a…
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Stores fight for early shoppers this holiday season
November 24, 2014If you’re frustrated about Christmas decorations appearing in the middle of November, an SFU professor has bad news for you — the retailers don’t care. Lindsay Meredith, SFU professor of marketing, argues that retailers would rather risk alienating a few…
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Professors get cyberbullied, too
November 24, 2014Cyberbullying in our school systems is usually understood as one student projecting their antagonisms upon another student, but what many do not realize is that cyberbullying can also be directed towards professors. Lida Blizard, a nursing instructor who recently completed…
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SFU receives donation for autism research
November 17, 2014Darryll Frost and his wife Lee have donated $500,000 to SFU to support research on atypical brain development and the potential for oxygen therapy to treat autism. In 2012, when their then three-year-old son Callum was diagnosed with autism, the…
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Unexplained dark spots raise questions about Venus’ surface
November 10, 2014The surface of Venus may be more complex than previously thought. Elise Harrington, an SFU earth sciences undergraduate student and intern at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, has made new discoveries as to how radar properties change along Venus’ mountain…
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Researchers highlight need for better bike safety
November 10, 2014Although Vancouver has become known as a cycling hotspot, cycling around the city is not without its risks. According to Meghan Winters, associate professor of health sciences, cycling is a great way to get around, but when incidents and injuries…
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Undersea pig carcasses provide forensic breakthrough
November 3, 2014New research from SFU’s criminology department shows that the level of oxygen in the ocean has a significant impact on the decomposition of submerged bodies. The study involved the three-year observation of three underwater pig carcasses in the Saanich…
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SFU researcher develops allergy-fighting database
November 2, 2014While you may be stuck with that annoying cat allergy for some time longer, the face of allergy research is about to change in a big way. The Allergy and Asthma Portal (AAP), an online database and search engine developed…
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CLIVE takes People’s Choice Award at MIT contest
October 20, 2014CLIVE (Coastal Impact Visualization Environment) is a project co-directed by an SFU professor. The project won the People’s Choice Award at a major MIT-sponsored contest that concluded in early October. The contest, entitled ‘Communicating Coastal Risk and Resiliency,’ focused on…
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