The Challenge Genetic diseases, while often rare, have, in aggregate, an enormous impact on the well-being of Canadian families, affecting the lives of approximately 500,000 children. The majority of genes causing these conditions are still unknown. These parents go through cycles of treatment and cost the health care system an inordinate amount of money considering…
Impact stories
Three OG seeded companies get additional funding
August 17, 2015InDanio Bioscience, Encycle Therapeautics made new research partnerships for research and drug development and RNA Diagnostics received angel investment. Two SMEs, InDanio Bioscience and Encycle Therapeautics will partner with Toronto researchers and provide in-kind contributions to the $1.5M funding by CQDM and CIHR, through its institutes of Cancer Research, Genetics and Infection and Immunity medicine,…
Development of surrogate host-system technology
June 11, 2015Developing a bacterial surrogate host system that allows replication and engineering of large DNA fragments before reintroducing them back to the original organism.
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The Opportunity for Agri-Food – Genomics in Canada [Report]
June 1, 2015A pan-Canadian approach to agricultural genomics can help address sector challenges in many ways. Find out how.
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Genomics for Agri-Food [Fact Sheet]
June 1, 2015Genomics is helping Canada’s agri-food sector develop innovative products and processes to increase global market share.
Protecting the honeybees
June 1, 2015See how genomics tools can help predict behaviour of bee colonies to help breed better bees. Bees are very important organisms. They pollinate a lot of the crops that humans feed and generate billions of dollars to Canada’s economy.
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Forestry: Challenges, Genomics Solutions [Report]
June 1, 2015A fact sheet created by Genome Canada exploring the ways genomics can help find solutions to the challenges facing Canada’s forest sector.
McEwen Mining event explains the applicability of genomics in mining [Video]
June 1, 2015Researchers declared the human genome fully-mapped in 2003, after more than a decade of work. Today, says geochemist Lesley Warren, that same project would take a matter of weeks and be a fraction of the cost, and so the moment has arrived to put these advanced tools to work to solve mining most pressing challenges- “the tools are finally at a point where we can apply them readily.” This presentation was part of McEwen Mining’s Innovation Lunch and Learn Series, hosted at the company’s Toronto office.
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Microbial communities and geochemistry to inform mine wastewater monitoring [Video]
June 1, 2015Lesley Warren of McMaster University and Stephanie Marshall of Glencore discuss how their collaboration can help better the understanding of the role microbes play, and how genomics information can be used to meet the goals of the mining industry.
Phytoremediation of nickel-copper mine tailings
January 25, 2015With the help of Ontario Genomics, Ambiotek, an emerging company developing ea phytostabilization technology for use towards mine tailings reclamation, has partnered with Drs Daniel Campbell, Nathan Basiliko and Nadia Mykytczukat of the Vale Living with Lakes Centre at Laurentian University. Together, they are working to characterize the rhizosphere microbial communities of plants that grow on tailings near Sudbury, Ontario, with the long term aim of further developing the phytostabilization technology for colder environments.