10.02.2014:
A litmus test for bacteria -Science Media Center of Canada
Researchers have developed a way to use litmus paper – which changes colour to indicate high or low pH – to provide a simple and effective test for bacteria like E. coli.
09.29.2014:
Linking pathogens to pH: A novel way to detect E.coli? -Food Quality News
A method to detect E.coli has been developed by linking pH to the pathogen.
Aptamers Recognize Small-Molecule Targets -Chemical & Engineering News
Dr.Yingfu Li comments on a new paper in Nature Chemistry.
09.26.2014:
Simple and Reliable: new test for E. coli -Sentinel Bioactive Paper Network News
As researchers push to make pathogen tests better, faster and cheaper, they sometimes forget one thing: simple is often best.
Bacteria detection by litmus: Inventing a new way to dye -McMaster Daily News
An international team of researchers based at McMaster has figured out a way to adapt the good old litmus test so it can detect bacteria such as E. coli.
Sentinel Bioactive Paper Network: Simple and Reliable New Test for E-coli -Research Matters
As researchers push to make pathogen tests better, faster and cheaper, they sometimes forget one thing: simple is often best.
09.24.2014:
Adapting the litmus test to identify bacteria -phys.org, USA News
An international team of researchers based at McMaster has figured out a way to adapt the good old litmus test so it can detect bacteria such as E. coli.
09.04.2014:
Glowing poop: McMaster researchers developing colorectal cancer test -CBC Hamilton
Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton search for DNA enzymes to create early warning test
Glowing poop could be a simple, accurate test for colorectal cancer -Hamilton Spectator, The Brampton Guardian, insidehalton.com
Glowing poop might be the key to finding a less invasive alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy.
New McMaster colon cancer test makes poop glow -CHCH News
Glowing poop could one day save people from having a dreaded colonoscopy.
Glowing poop could be a simple, accurate test for colorectal cancer -Guelph Mercury
Glowing poop might be the key to finding a less invasive alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy.
Fluorescent feces test may detect colorectal cancer -UPI Health News, istockanalyst.com
McMaster University researchers use Canadian Cancer Society grant to develop test to detect colorectal cancer in the early stages.
Glowing poop will identify cancer, Canadian researchers hope – Canoe.ca, Ottawa Sun, London Free Press
Researchers believe they have the poop on a non-invasive stool test for colorectal cancer.
McMaster team looks to replace colonoscopies with glowing poop test – Metronews.ca
Glowing poop might be the key to finding a less invasive alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy.
If Your Poop Is Neon, You Have Colon Cancer – Vocativ
Researchers are working on a noninvasive test for colorectal cancer that will make your shit glow if the disease is present. Beats a colonoscopy.
Glowing Poop Will Tell You If You Have Colon Cancer -First to Know
Researchers at McMaster University in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario are currently developing a new, non-invasive way to detect colon cancer in the early stages.
Des selles fluo pour détecter le cancer colorectal -ICI Radio-Canada
Des chercheurs ontariens de l’Université McMaster, à Hamilton, tentent de développer un test peu coûteux, simple et non invasif pour détecter le cancer colorectal.
Des selles fluo permettraient de dépister le cancer colorectal -985fm.ca
Des chercheurs ontariens tentent de mettre au point ce qui pourrait devenir un test peu coûteux, simple, précis et non invasif pour détecter le cancer colorectal.
04.26.2011:
Bacteria Beware! on CTS TV News
“Videographer Greg Howes has the story of a group of McMaster University scientists who have come up with a way to spot these infiltrators that you may soon be able to do in your own home.”
04.12.2011
Hunting for deadly bacteria in McMaster Daily News
Hunting for deadly bacteria in Science Daily
Hunting for deadly bacteria in ScienceNewsline
“Biochemist Yingfu Li and his research team have developed a simple test that can swiftly and accurately identify specific pathogens using a system that will ‘hunt’ for bacteria, identifying their harmful presence before they have a chance to contaminate our food and water.”
04.07.2011:
New test for germs: Fluorescing DNAzymes detect metabolic products from bacteria on PhysOrg.com
New test for germs in Innovations Report
A new test for germs on Internetchemistry.com
“Yingfu Li and a team at McMaster University in Hamilton…have now developed an especially simple, universal fluorescence test system that specifically and rapidly detects germs by means of their metabolic products.”
06.28.2010
Innovator Awards recognize academic entrepreneurs in McMaster Daily News
“Spectral Diagnostics Inc. received the McMaster Industry Partner Award… The company was recognized for its ongoing research collaboration with Yingfu Li, assistant professor of biochemistry.”
06.26.2009
McMaster honours innovators in McMaster Daily News
“A poster detailing the commercial potential of paper-based biosensing devices developed by researchers in McMaster’s biochemistry department took the top prize at the 2009 McMaster Innovation Showcase.”
11.05.2008
Zhao wins honourable mention at NSERC Innovation Challenge Awards in McMaster Daily News
“Zhao won an honourable mention at the NSERC Innovation Challenge Awards recently for a report entitled ‘Biodetection kits using gold nanoparticle-coated paper.’ “
06.05.2008
Presentation @ Innovation 8 Showcase by Golden Horseshoe Biosciences Network
“Yingfu Li of Biochemistry and Biomedical Science presented and explained to us DNA Aptamer Technology for Biodetection and Related Applications.”
03.30.2007
Chemistry professor receives Ken Standing Award in McMaster Daily News
“Dr. John Brennan, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been named the inaugural winner of the Ken Standing Award…’the Standing Award was given for work that was done in collaboration with professors Michael Brook in the Department of Chemistry and Yingfu Li in the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences.’ “
11.28.2006
McMaster receives more than $13.5 million for research in McMaster Daily News
“The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced yesterday that McMaster University was awarded more than $13.5 million to support three projects…The three projects include a Centre for Microbial Chemical Biology; a Micro- and Nano-Systems Laboratory (MNS); and a Systems Biology Centre.”
Fall.2006
Mass spectrometer-based flow cytometer, methods and applications, project by University Health Network, University of Toronto, Ontario Cancer Institute, McMaster University @ Stemspec.ca
“‘We’re examining DNA not for its well-recognized role as the genetic material to store and transmit genetic information, but rather for its less-known potential to act as a novel cancer diagnostic tool.'”
11.11.2005
$2.5M federal investment in Canada Research Chairs in McMaster Daily News
“For Li, being a Canada Research Chair means he has, ‘an enhanced opportunity for my research program, an added responsibility to represent my university and my country well, and no excuse for being just mediocre. For the second term of my CRC, I will be as determined as I have been in the first term, to perform my duty to the best of my ability.'”
02.18.2003
New Functional Genomics Centre connects leading researchers in McMaster Daily News
“A new Functional Genomics Centre that will bring together some of McMaster’s leading-edge researchers in the area of human disease, specifically cancer, received Senate approval last week…The centre’s core faculty includes: John Hassell; Juliet Daniel, biology; Suleiman Igdoura, biology; Yingfu Li, biochemistry; Bernardo Trigatti, biochemistry; Peter Whyte, pathology and molecular medicine.”
01.23.2001
Federal investment means new research dollars for McMaster in McMaster Daily News
“Researchers at McMaster will receive more than $1.5-million for seven research projects funded under the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s New Opportunities Program. Yingfu Li (biochemistry) Creation of functional nucleic acids and DNA-binding molecules as therapeutic agents. CFI contribution: $199,152”