A new approach to drug design can deliver medicine directly to the gut in mice at significantly lower doses than current inflammatory bowel disease treatments. The proof-of-concept study, published ...

According to nationally-representative surveys in the United States, hundreds of thousands of straight-identified men have had sex with other men. In the new book Still Straight: Sexual Flexibility ...

The public has the wrong idea about what homeless people would do after coming into a large amount of money. A newly published University of B.C. study in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Thanks to an accidental discovery, researchers at the University of British Columbia have created a new super-black material that absorbs almost all light, opening potential applications in fine ...

They’re being hailed as an effective way to lose weight, but diabetes drugs like Ozempic may come with a heightened risk of severe gastrointestinal problems. That’s according to new research from the ...

Time is everything in health care. Imagine a loved one with high-risk breast cancer being prioritized for treatment in days, not months. A doctor who is able to spend more time with patients and less ...

A global study of more than 66,000 participants has revealed which groups of people are most susceptible to misinformation. Study participants assessed news headlines and tried to judge whether they ...

The first successful human transplant of a kidney converted from blood type A to universal type O used special enzymes developed at the University of British Columbia to help prevent a mismatch and ...

Would you rather have 10 cents in your pocket or a 1-in-10,000 shot at $1,000? Many people would choose the latter, and that could be the key to getting people to recycle more, a new University of ...

Media preview event: Journalists are invited to an exclusive preview of the MycoToilet on Sept. 26 at 11 a.m. Full details below. UBC researchers are launching the world’s first mushroom-powered ...

All your favourite Canadianisms—and 137 new ones—just got easier to find, right in time for Canada Day. The UBC editors of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles have released an ...

Rising rents and housing shortages aren’t just making it harder for young Canadians to find a place of their own—they’re fundamentally changing how families live together, according to new research ...