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$3.3M investment for sharing big data for healthcare innovation

December 15, 2015

Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) announced a $3.3 million investment in Can-SHARE – a pan-Canadian program that will enable innovation in the use of genomic data for health care for patients in Canada and worldwide. This program will create the policies and tools for Canadian clinicians and researchers to share…

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Genome Engineering: Should we do it? (Webcast)

December 14, 2015

This webcast by Dr. Trevor Charles who explored the science of genome engineering and how it can be applied to produce safe an nutritious food for a growing world population at the lecture series hosted by the Royal Canadian Institute for Advancement of Science (RCIS) as free, public science talks.

Genomics and mining? Really?

November 25, 2015

If you thought that genomics can only be applied to healthcare, you might be surprised to learn that at an Innovation Lunch and Learn hosted by McEwen Mining, Drs. Lesley Warren and Elizabeth Edwards shared some of the ways in which genomics can be applied to the mining industry. “There are microbes out there that…

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