The University of British Columbia

British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Jared Raymond Slobodan

Robin John Noel Coope

Robert N Meek

Scott Young

Qingan Zhu

Timothy Schwab

Andrea Marziali

Jason Donald Thompson

David Keddie Brown

Roy Belak

Diponkar Banerjee

Kurtis Dan Guggenheimer

Robin J Noel Coope

Coope Robin J Noel,

Devices for treating a bone and methods of inserting such devices into a bone are disclosed. A device for treating a bone may include a flexible tube, a stiffening mechanism and an actuator. The flexible tube has a distal end and a proximal end. The stiffening mechanism within the flexible tube is configured to cause the flexible tube to become rigid. The actuator is configured to cause the stiffening mechanism to cause the flexible tube to become rigid in response to the actuator being actuated.

Intramedullary fixation system for management of pelvic and acetabular fractures

Apparatus and methods for size selecting nucleic acid molecules having wide range of applications including the production of DNA libraries for sequencing technologies. An automated high throughput system for size selection of multiple nucleic acid samples that uses imaging technique to detect the progress of a target fraction and feedback from the imaging to control electrophoresis. Predictive algorithms for timed nucleic acid extractions are generated to provide size selected nucleic acid molecules of required size ranges.

Automated size selection of nucleic acids

Apparatus for dispensing droplets of reagent onto samples includes a probe tip to which droplets of reagent can adhere. The apparatus advances the probe tip toward a sample until a droplet of reagent touches the sample and is pulled off from the probe tip. A sensor detects that the droplet has been pulled off from the probe tip and halts the advance of the probe tip before the probe tip touches the sample. Such apparatus may be used to automatically dispense small volumes of reagent onto fragile samples.

Reagent delivery apparatus and methods

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Jared Raymond Slobodan