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Tool for visualizing genetic data to pair wine and cheese
December 9, 2016U of T’s Gary Bader has created an app that features nearly 1,000 wine and cheese pairings. Using Cytoscape, a program originally designed to help geneticists and biologists visually map out the networks of relationships between genes and molecules, the technology maps relationships between types of wine and cheese.
Scientists grow intestinal tissues with functional nerves
December 9, 2016Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have succeeded in engineering intestinal tissue with functional nerves in a laboratory setting. Their method brings regenerative medicine one step closer to making practical use of human pluripotent stem cells for transplants as well as modeling and studying intestinal disorders.
Canada’s next big economic pitch: To feed a hungry world
December 9, 2016As the fifth-largest agricultural exporter in the world, Canada’s agriculture and food-processing sector is essential to the economy. According to Dominic Barton, chair of the Canadian Minister of Finance’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth, the use of technological innovation in precision agriculture will advance this production capacity, and help Canada find a niche in the global economy to ultimately spur economic growth.
$110M invested in 13 Canadian research projects to deploy genomics
December 9, 2016Today, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, announced $32 M in federal support for 13 large-scale applied research projects that will use genomics to solve long-standing challenges. These projects, representing a total investment of $110M, look to mitigate the effects of climate change on forestry and fisheries, protect the Arctic, and support wildlife.
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Largest international study of its kind finds new schizophrenia risk genes
November 25, 2016Canadian and international scientists have uncovered six new schizophrenia risk genes. Including over 40,000 people and 170 scientists, the study analyzed the genes of individuals with schizophrenia and healthy controls using microarrays (technology using a microchip to determine if a genome has missing or duplicated pieces of DNA). The results provide further support to the important role genes play in susceptibility to schizophrenia.
Key to synthesizing multifunctional cells: Isolation
November 25, 2016Interference between synthesized genetic circuits has plagued the ability to design complex cells with multiple functions. MIT researchers have demonstrated that isolating these genetic circuits using artificial membranes prevents such interference, thus enabling the design of complex cells with multiple genetic circuits in parallel, each carrying out a set function.
Broad Institute, Intel launch $25M genomic data analysis collaboration
November 25, 2016The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have announced a 5-year, $25 million collaboration with Intel. Aimed at improving researchers’ ability to analyze massive amounts of genomic data from diverse sources, the collaboration is working towards the creation of a genetic database ‘superhighway’ to advance genomics research.