Bitumen extraction from the oil sands of Alberta has resulted in millions of cubic meters of waste stored on-site in tailings ponds. Unique microbial ecology is expected in these ponds, which may be… (More)
Background:Poor cancer survival rates in the United Kingdom are often blamed on delayed medical care. A local audit of endometrial cancer revealed a variety of preventable delays. We surveyed… (More)
Here, we used an in vitro biofilm approach to study metal resistance and/or tolerance of mixed-species biofilms grown from an oil sand tailings pond in northern Alberta, Canada. Metals can be… (More)
Germinal center (GC) T cells are a poorly investigated population with a unique helper-inducer memory phenotype. Murine GC T cells have been demonstrated to be oligoclonal and antigen specific. The… (More)
A burst release of cytokines by Valpha14 invariant NKT (iNKT) cells upon their TCR engagement critically regulates innate and adaptive immune responses. However, it remains unclear in vivo why iNKT… (More)
Recently, much progress has been made in the field of tumor immunology. Much of this work has focused on understanding and exploiting the innate immune response to tumor cells. A novel human… (More)