UNB Research
This photo of a tiny worm is one to keep an eye on
UNB Research
Posted: September 15, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Accolades , Faculty of Science , Publications , Research
Natasha Hynes is a graduate student at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), where she is completing her master of science in biology. Hynes is also a finalist in this year’s NSERC Science Exposed contest, an annual contest organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and devoted exclusively to images of scientific research, in all fields of study. It is intended to showcase research images and foster interest in science and scientific curiosity. Through...
UNB experts join Black Arcs to create novel disease modelling system
UNB Research
Posted: June 20, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty of Science , COVID-19 , Partnerships , Research , Innovation & Commercialization
At the height of COVID-19, Fredericton company Black Arcs knew they could help governments and experts with better pandemic response planning. They already had Citisketch, a product that simulates the daily life of communities; how people move around and behave throughout their day. They’d built it with trusted, anonymized statistical data and knew it provided reliable insights about community-level contact. It could iterate through new scenarios quickly and provide a visual, more...
It’s life, but not as we know it? UNB researcher part of NASA-funded project exploring how to detect life on other planets
UNB Research
Posted: August 30, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Faculty of Science
Dr. Allison Enright is an assistant professor of earth sciences at UNB, but her current research has her staring at the stars. This summer, Dr. Enright is a visiting scholar at Harvard University working on a research question that sounds straight out of science fiction: what might an alien form of life look like, and how would we know if we found it? We spoke with her about the project, her role and what it means to be chosen for a visiting scholarship. Can you tell us about the project that...
New biochemistry research provides groundbreaking insight for production of key chemotherapy drug
UNB Research
Posted: June 27, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Faculty of Science , Publications , Category
For decades, vinblastine has been an important medicine in chemotherapy regimens to treat a number of cancers and has helped save countless thousands of lives. In fact, the World Health Organization includes it on their List of Essential Medicines. And yet, in spite of its importance for modern, Western medicine, the world’s commercial supply stems from a single, natural source: the Madagascar periwinkle. “Because vinblastine is highly complex in structure and...
Meet the researcher: Dr. Nanwei Wang, mathematics and statistics
UNB Research
Posted: June 1, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Faculty of Science
UNB's Dr. Nanwei Wang is using complex mathematics in the fight against cancer. But, how do graphs help fight disease? In this Meet the Researcher story, we speak with Dr. Wang about how math and genetics come together in his research to tackle big, complex challenges. Who are you? My name is Dr. Nanwei Wang, and I am a data scientist and assistant professor of mathematics and statistics. I completed my PhD in statistics at York University in 2017, after which I completed a three-year...
New UNB research may solve 50-year-old black hole mystery
UNB Research
Posted: April 26, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Accolades , Publications , Category , Research , Faculty of Science
A new paper published by researchers at UNB might create some big shockwaves in the study of black holes. In their research, published in Physics Review Letters 128(12), Dr. Viqar Husain, Jarod Kelly, Robert Santacruz and Dr. Edward Wilson-Ewing describe the creation of a simulation that might just resolve a question that has stumped physicists for five decades: the so-called black hole information paradox. For the benefit of those of us without advanced degrees in quantum physics, we asked...