Major breast cancer breakthrough

BC scientists first in world to decode genetic evolution of a breast cancer tumor For the first time in history, BC Cancer Agency scientists in British Columbia, Canada have decoded all of the three billion letters in the DNA sequence of a metastatic lobular breast cancer tumour, a type of breast cancer which accounts for about 10 per cent of all breast cancers, and have found all of the mutations, or “spelling” mistakes that caused the cancer to spread (for further reading) http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/ABCCA/NewsCentre/2009/breastdnatumourbreakthrough.htm  »View More

date10 Oct
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iPhone Comes to Telus

Telus has struck a deal with Apple to carry the hugely popular iPhone. The iPhone is arguably the best smartphone since the introduction of the blackberry. This move is great for Telus customers as Telus is developing a new high-speed network to accommodate the iPhones. Up till now Rogers has had the exclusive on the iPhone in Canada, but that all changes next month. Do yourself a favour and head in to your local Tom Harris Cellular store and check out the new Telus iPhone. You will be blown away at the huge number of incredible applications that are available for the iphone. Just a few of my favorite iPhone apps are; Google Maps –... 

date10 Oct
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Attention Shaw Cable Users

If you are still using Shaw’s old cable modems (Terayon or CyberSurfr) call Shaw Cable and ask them to send you a new upgraded modem. You will find a HUGE difference. Or at least I did! I had complained to Shaw about slow speeds, as a result they sent me a new modem that is compatible with their new higher speeds. They sent me a Motorola SB5102. As expected it only took a minute to swap out. Prior to swapping, I had run 3 speed tests on Shaws Speed Test Old Modem Test #1 #2 #3 Avg Before down 1.6 1.9 1.7 1.73 up 419 404 420 414.33 ping 241 241 238 240.00 New Modem Test #1 #2 #3 Avg After down 15.3 22.9 22.8 20.33 up 456 456 457 456.33 ping 86 88 89 87.67 Comparison Avg... 

date4 Oct
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Twitter British Columbia Canada

Welcome to our new twitter stories about BC Canada. We tweet stories of interest to British Columbians. If you have stories of interest to BC please leave us a comment with more info. You can follow us on twitter here http://twitter.com/BCseo  »View More

date3 Oct
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