- Alberta Innovates
- Thwarting the diabolic plans of Mountain Pine Beetles
Thwarting the diabolic plans of Mountain Pine Beetles.
Some Canadian mills are shutting down due to inferior fiber associated with mountain pine-beetle killed wood. However, one newsprint mill in Alberta is not only surviving the pine beetle's effects - in fact, production has been boosted to record highs. Alberta Newsprint Company has been able to continue producing top-quality newsprint despite being forced to use inferior wood chips from wood killed by mountain pine beetles. This unique situation has been possible thanks to a discovery made by Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures. The corporation developed a detection and response system for inferior, beetle-killed wood. The discovery not only boosted production despite the setback, but it helped save many jobs. Alberta Newsprint Company is Whitecourt, Alberta's main employer.
- $1 billion, a 30–year legacy and health and medical innovation
Alberta Innovates Health Solutions has a 30-year legacy of supporting top-quality, world-renowned research, formerly under the name Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR). During that time, we have invested more than $1 billion in health and medical research.
- Getting resourceful with our resources.
With our world-famous nature and bountiful resources, it's only natural that Alberta has become equally renowned for our leadership in agriculture, forestry and life sciences research and technology.
- Another first. Sleep apnea discovery
Dr. John Remmers, a global leader in sleep physiology and sleep medicine, was the first to demonstrate that sleep apnea, a condition in which a person stops breathing periodically during sleep, is due to an anatomical narrowing of the pharynx. Dr. Remmers produced CPAP and the SnortSat sleep recorder.
- Novice skiers in good hands in Alberta
Our awe-inspiring Rocky Mountains attract some of the best and worst skiers in the world. Luckily for the latter, our province's superior healthcare system draws top health care researchers, practitioners and innovators from around the globe.
- New technology equates to a 60 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions
- New oil sands technology eliminates need for tailings ponds
- 35 years managing investments in energy research and developement
- Phytola, an Alberta Innovates Centre develops value–added products from oilseeds
- Livestock Gentec, an Alberta Innovates Centre partially supported by Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions.
- The Food Processing Development Centre at Leduc is Canada’s largest of its kind and the only one with a major focus on applied research
- The Alberta–developed food safety product, Micocin, prevents listeriosis in packaged meat products.
- Dr. Westaway is a world–leading prion researcher
Alberta Innovates has captured attention globally. When we have the opportunity to speak with researchers and innovators outside of Alberta, they wonder how we have put the system together and achieved the alignment that we have achieved.
There is a single point of access for anyone, anywhere in the world to find out how to partner with us.
Dr. Cy Frank is one of the leading figures in the field of bone and joint injury in the world and attributes his presence in Alberta to Alberta Innovates Health Solutions.
Ron Dyck, Assistant Deputy Minister of Research and Innovation Division of Advanced Education and Technology, discusses the mandate of Alberta Innovates. Alberta Innovates brings together research and industry together in a new way.
37°C is the normal body temperature, making it an optimal temperature for the cells to grow.
The hepatoma cell line is unique because it allows the hepatitis C virus to be isolate while it infects the cells in the tissue culture hood. Therefore the virus can be studied due to its safe environment.
The hepatoma cells in the culture dish allow for the HCV infection and can then be used for future studies.
The Houghton Team is working on a tissue culture hood. This hood provides a sterile environment allowing them to handle the growth of hepatoma cells. Without this sterile environment, the growth of the cells and the virus cannot be studied due to the hazardous environment.