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It started with vomiting. Headaches and irregular vision followed and normally high energy levels were replaced with lethargy. The uncharacteristic traits for nine-yearold Emma Smith prompted her parents to take the Grade 4 student to the hospital for a check up. The subsequent MRI and diagnosis changed their lives. “Even at that stage they were convinced it was a cancer – and it was,” father Darrell said. “Whether it was benign or not, it was described to us as an aggressive rare cancer. A week later we knew it was malignant.” With no time to spare, go home and get a change of clothing, Emma and her mother were airlifted to B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver where emergency surgery was performed to remove the lesion to relieve pressure on her brain. “You think why us,” Darrell said. “But (Emma) very quickly was, ‘OK, let’s deal with this.’ That has been Emma’s strength. She has accepted that she has to do it. She has a stiff upper lip.” The surgery helped remove half the cancerous lesion, but radiation treatment followed close behind with six weeks of energy-sapping therapy where the Cloverdale Traditional School student was put into a tight formfitting mould for treatment, during which she was forced to lie motionless while the radiation washed over her body in an attempt to destroy the cancer. PLEASE SEE: Community rallies, Page A8
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University of Victoria chemistry professor Alex Brolo sits behind a prototype of a biosensor (yellow) being used to detect leukemia from blood samples.
Taking science to the real world UVic among a group of schools to get funding to move nanotechnologies and other high-tech projects into the commercialization phase Edward Hill News staff
In a windowless room of a University of Victoria engineering lab, a biomedical sensor the size of a postage stamp could hold the answer to a fast and inexpensive way to diagnose disease. Bright gold and transparent, the sensor is peppered with holes on the scale of a few hundred nanometres – 600 times thinner than a human hair – and infused with micro-drops of blood provided by a hospital in Toronto. With a laser and properly calibrated imaging camera, researchers will eventually be able to quickly detect telltale signs of leukemia and other cancers, without biopsies or laboratory blood work. “This is a proof-of-concept device. The nano-structure integrated into this biosensor looks for markers used to ID leuke-
mia,” says Alex Brolo, a UVic chemistry professor. “It’s not done yet, but it’s getting there.” This biomedical sensor and its underlying microfluid and nanotechnology are still years away from clinical use, but federal funding announced last week is designed to kick it from the basement lab in the Elliott Building to a viable prototype for industry. The Canadian Foundation for Innovation has committed $7.7 million for the Prometheus Project, a collaboration between UVic, Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia and the British Columbia Institute of Technology. It is an effort that seeks to do nothing less than make Victoria and Metro Vancouver a world-class materials science hub. PLEASE SEE: UVic takes part in ground-breaking research, Page A11
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