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Charles Robert Scriver was a pioneer in treating and researching inborn errors of metabolism. He discovered 12 of these diseases in his career and put Vitamin D into Canada’s milk.

Charles Scriver’s simple solution to help Canada’s sick kids

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Bad metabolism is an issue that many struggle with. A lot of children have issues with their metabolism before and after they are born, where they have deficiencies and diseases that interfere with their ability to function normally. Charles Robert Scriver spent his career not only researching inborn errors of metabolism, but also implementing changes to save Canada’s children. Born in Montreal in 1930, Scriver was the son of two doctors. He

James Till contributed in discovering stem cells.

James Till and the discovery of stem cells

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Rebecca Meijer Algonquin College Journalism Program In 1962, James Till changed the face of modern medicine when he – along with his colleague Ernest McCulloch – discovered the existence of stem cells. Finding stem cells have opened many scientific doors, completely changing the way that leukemia is treated, and influencing cancer research. Even decades after their discovery, scientists are still exploring the full potential of stem cell research. A biophysicist from Yale University, Till was

M. Vera Peters findings on radiation treatments were revolutionary. They changed the norm treatments for both Hodgkin’s disease and breast cancer.

Revolutionizing radiation treatment

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Victoria Dalgleish Algonquin College Journalism Program When her mother developed breast cancer, Mildred Vera Peters gained a new perspective. The only treatment for breast cancer at this time was to have a mastectomy. But the cancer returned, and Peters’ mother had to undergo radiation. She was inspired by the concept of treating the whole body instead of only the area affected. Born in, 1911 at a dairy farm outside of Toronto, Peters excelled at school and attended the University of Toronto

McGill was considered the first woman Mountie. Source: RCMP Heritage Centre.

Frances McGill, Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program Forensic science is prominent today, but it was still a new field in the early 1900s.’ However this did not stop Frances Gertrude McGill, who would later become known by some as the “Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan.” McGill was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba in 1877 and grew up on her family’s farm. After teachers’ college she attended the University of Manitoba in medicine, graduating in 1915. McGill became the provincial bacteriologist in 1918 and

Wilder Penfield, an American-born Canadian neurosurgeon, as a student at Princeton University in 1911. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division. Reproduction number: 20540-4730.

Charting unchartered territory in neurosurgery

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Ilana Reimer Algonquin College Journalism Program Wilder Penfield was determined to enhance the practice of neurosurgery. He considered it a terrible profession, admitting in 1921 that if he didn’t think the career was improving, he would hate it. But Penfield could not help being fascinated by the human brain, and his work completely changed our knowledge of the organ. Originally from the U.S., Penfield was recruited to become a professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University in

Photo of Brenda Milner. Author: Eva Blue.

Long-term legacy for short-term memory

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program In the film, 50 First Dates, Adam Sandler had to win the heart of Drew Barrymore every day because due to an accident, she suffers from amnesia and can’t remember what happened the day before. Brenda Milner, a British neuroscientist who immigrated to Canada, had a similar, but real life experience studying a patient for 30 years who never remembered her. Her patient, Henry Molaison, had surgery to reduce his seizures, but the surgeon removed his

Ernest McCulloch assisted with the discovery of stem cells.

Proving that stem cells exist: the experiments that changed how we understand the human body

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program When Dr. Ernest McCulloch began studying the effects of nuclear radiation on the human body, he was not looking to discover the source of blood cells. But as he examined the mice used in the study, McCulloch noticed small collections of the cells, growing sort of like bacteria. Through ingenuity and hard work, McCulloch and his partner, Dr. James Till, were the first to show the world that we could understand and maybe even use this fundamental

Harold Elford Johns asked the NRC to start creating Cobalt-60 isotopes to treat cancer.

The bomb that saves lives

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program In 2009, Ontario’s Chalk River nuclear laboratory closed for maintenance. This meant that the largest producer of medical isotopes in the world was turned off and supply plummeted, causing significant delays in medical treatments. This event underscored how important Canada’s role in nuclear medicine has been ever since physicist Dr. Harold Elford Johns asked the National Research Council to start creating Cobalt-60 isotopes in 1949. Cobalt-60 is

John Alexander Hopps helped to invent the artificial pacemaker to regulate the heart.

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Creating a new kind of heart beat

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program The pacemaker is a device that helps to stimulate the heart, thus saving lives. But surprisingly, this remarkable discovery was made unintentionally. It began with two Canadian surgeons, Dr. Wilfred G. Bigelow and Dr. John C. Callaghan, who were researching cold heart surgery, a method of operating while cooling a body to slow the heart rate. However, their research led the two men to observe that pulses of electrical current from a probe could

Raymond Urgel Lemieux discovered how to synthesize sugar. Source: University of Alberta.

Raymond Lemieux: leading the carbohydrate revolution

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program Raymond Urgel Lemieux may not have climbed a mountain to gain fame, but the chemistry professor’s widely acclaimed discovery of synthesizing sucrose, (table sugar) is largely considered the “Mount Everest of organic chemistry.” In 1953, Lemieux succeeded in synthesizing sugar while at the National Research Council’s Prairie Regional Laboratory. This was remarkable because it allowed us to understand sugar’s molecular, three-dimensional structure

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