The National Research Council of Canada and Airbus have renewed their framework agreement on research and technology cooperation. This new five-year agreement builds on a long-standing relationship between the two organisations to cooperate on research and technology development which spans more than 30 years. The NRC-Airbus agreement will cover a wide range of technical subjects … Read more
The National Research Council of Canada and Greybox Solutions Inc. developed an innovative “virtual assistant” — an Artificial Intelligence health monitoring solution for Greybox’s existing TakeCare secure health monitoring platform — to help patients, their healthcare providers, and caregivers remotely manage chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure. Greybox, and its clinical partners located … Read more
Dr. Wayne Hiebert, a research officer at the National Research Council and adjunct professor of the University of Alberta and his team discovered that dullerresonances can actually increase sensor performance. Simply put, if the bulls-eye on an archery target represents a resonance’s sharpness, dulling the resonance would make the bulls-eye larger, and allow the arrow to … Read more
The NRC Metrology team’s research has led to the first accurate measurement of the isotopic composition of iridium, the key element behind the leading theory of the mass extinction of dinosaurs. The full release is available online. Call 1-855-282-1637.
Staff and friends of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory gathered to recognize a century of discovery and celebrate the telescope that helped shape early knowledge of the Milky Way. On May 6, 1918, the first light fell onto photographic plates at the Plaskett Telescope, beginning research at the Observatory and propelling Canada onto the world stage … Read more
A team of researchers from institutions including the National Research Council of Canada, Dalhousie University, the University of Victoria, the University of Illinois and the Flatiron Institute, have discovered a cluster of galaxies assembling very differently and more quickly than current models would predict. The nascent cluster is made up of at least 14 galaxies … Read more
In response to the Ebola outbreak that claimed more than 10,000 lives in West Africa four years ago, Canada and China worked on a new Ebola vaccine. Created by the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences’ Bioengineering Institute and CanSino Biologics Inc., the vaccine has recently been approved by Chinese regulators and the National Research … Read more
Leading neuroscientists from the National Research Council of Canada and Biogen are working together to leverage the NRC’s unique molecular map of blood vessels that form the blood-brain barrier, to develop new treatments. Over 30 scientists from the NRC and Biogen are now identifying new pathways for medicines to cross the barrier, exploiting a mechanism that … Read more
The National Research Council of Canada and the University of Ottawa announceed that Dr. Albert Stolow has received the Canadian Society for Chemistry’s 2018 John C. Polanyi Award. Dr. Stolow is a world-leading physicist whose research uses ultrafast laser technology to both make ‘molecular movies’ and to ‘direct’ atoms and molecules to perform new roles via quantum control. The … Read more
Children and immunocompromised adults at risk of Haemophilus influenzae type a (Hia) bacterial infections are one step closer to having access to a vaccine that will help protect them from the potentially deadly infection. The vaccine developed by the National Research Council of Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada has been licensed to InventVacc Biologicals … Read more
