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A researcher in Algoma University’s School of Life Sciences and the Environment has received a prestigious $162,500 grant to further her research in cancer biology. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada awarded a Discovery grant to Dr. Nirosha Murugan for her research program Biophysical Control of Tissue Re-Programming. Murugan’s research aims to understand how cells communicate with each other in order to be able to prevent or stop cancer cells from developing. “In the biological world, cells are constantly talking to each other,” Murugan explained to Sault This Week. “The way that they communicate is most commonly thought of as through exchanging molecules. These molecules tell the cell to divide, to move, and what they should be (e.g., a heart cell, a brain cell) or what shape the cells should take. The biomolecules that tell cells to form certain shapes are called morphogens.”
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Homer Foster was a Sault Star editor for more than 50 years and a long-time member of the Sault Ste. Marie Planning Board.
He died last Wednesday. Foster was 96.
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The Thessalon native started his journalism career when he was serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. He did newscasts over his base’s public address system.
“Everybody figured I had a pretty good voice for it,” Foster said during an interview with The Oral History Project of Sault Ste. Marie in 2018.