Cake and cookies, oh my! Bioinformatics isn’t just for medicine anymore.
Investing in variant tracking
While everyone is battling the current pandemic, superbugs are expanding another battlefield. Here is how bioinformatics is improving our odds for survival
Researchers ARE in this together
Join our researchers in a Night Before Christmas
Miracles only occur in the darkest hours and heroes are only born from the most tragic of horrors. Here’s how the fastest transition in history from pandemic to vaccines happened.
Curing or treating diseases may rely more on cancelling gene expression and “disease expression,” than gene editing, although many future treatments are likely to combine genetic techniques.
Researchers find the flu shot may protect against Covid-19 too. Meanwhile, decoding cell-surface sugars presents a major breakthrough in the fight against infections of all types.
Researchers sequenced the genome of Alexander Fleming’s original penicillin mold and compared it to later versions. What they found may be the answer to antibiotic-resistant microbes.
Health-care workers in a pandemic
Kids, COVID, and Classrooms
Barcoding the testing process
Cats to the rescue?
Remake of cell line development delivers a major production boost for CHO cell protein factories
New testing technology
Bioinformatics map SARS-CoV-2’s ancestry, looking to prevent future pandemics from the same virus lineage
An underappreciated middle child
Researchers find human gut microbiomes create tendency for disease susceptibility or resistance, above and beyond other factors such as poverty and general health conditions.
Genomics reveal more than contact tracing alone, such as whether a healthcare worker contracted SARS-CoV-2 from a patient or a social gathering.
Deep sea microbes
Bioinformatics in Alberta
COG-UK and CanCOGeN
Researchers identify 29 FDA-approved drugs, 12 drugs in clinical trials, and 28 preclinical compounds that can be repurposed to fight COVID-19
Campus closures won’t stop these dedicated students!
Traditional vaccine research took 10-15 years, now researchers hope bioinformatics will condense that to less than 2 years
CanCOGeN announced
The Southern Alberta Technology Council (SATC) has decided to virtualize the 2020 Regional Science Fair event.
Announced by the Stem Cell Network (SCN), these new research projects will contribute to the global response to COVID-19,
If you thought coronavirus was scary, check out zombie deer disease
New COVID research funding
COVIDathon combines the talents and tools of diverse disciplines from around the world in a single collaborative effort to defeat the worst pandemic in modern times
New funding for clinical genomics
What do cooking and parasites have in common?
Codominance and Incomplete dominance
Is it a natural occurring virus or a bioweapon? Bioinformatics can potentially reveal origin and treatment of coronaviruses.
U.S. now requires pharmacogenomics data be included on drug labels. Other countries expected to do the same. The new drug info speeds personalized treatments to patients with preemptive pharmacogenomics tests in their EMRs.
This ground-breaking program is an opportunity for stakeholders in Alberta’s Cannabis ecosystem to collaborate in a coordinated way to advance Cannabis research and innovations
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is leading a pioneering international project to sequence the DNA of marine microbes in the Arctic Ocean.
The University of Lethbridge’s Collegiate iGEM team set its sights on solving a problem that affects nearly nine per cent of the world’s population, and earned a gold medal for their efforts.
Sitting in the fishbowl.
Researchers at the University of Lethbridge will delve further into the basic markers associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) thanks to two funding grants.
Using the newly created bioinformatics tool, MHcut, with commercial genome-editing technology, enables researchers to model diseases without the need of patient samples. This combination will make it much easier to study diseases even when patients are rare or unavailable.
“Envigour”-ating beef cattle
Genome sciences and bioinformatics research in the province is getting a $3M boost
A team of researchers from the University of Calgary have uncovered new information about a class of plant enzymes that could have implications for the pharmaceutical industry.
"If you do experiments, it could take 20 or 30 years to figure it out. With this software system, you can do it in five minutes.”
Scientists using an experimental treatment have slowed the progression of scrapie, a degenerative central nervous disease caused by prions
AI maps and analyzes cellular response to disease and treatments in computational models that go far beyond experimentally available data.
A major new initiative that adds genomics technologies to traditional geoscience aims to reduce the risk for oil exploration in Nova Scotia’s offshore.
Funding supports regional Genome Centres, more than 300 genomics researchers
Genome Alberta is pleased to help support the SING Canada program this this year
the experiential component of the learning experience
A strategic collaboration between Génome Québec and IVADO
There are some questions too big for even AI on conventional computers to answer within the lifetime of the universe.
Funding will support translational stem cell research across Canada
Women in BIO is more than just networking
Hunting for investors in Philadephia
Social issue facing gene editing treatments
Bioinformatics is the key to unlocking the mysteries of nature, finding life-saving cures, and bringing a new age to medicine beyond anything previously imagined.
A sneak peek at the Innovation Nation Panel
Edmonton startup is capturing investor interest
A quick look at a new fast growing type of salmon.
Great research ideas need help to become great companies
Scientists discovered how plants epigenetically pass on disease and pest resistance to offspring, and that could lead to the elimination of the need for poisonous pesticides
Epigenetics is essential to personalized medicine, but it has a strong role in public health too.
Researchers surprised to find epigenetics is ancient evolutionary tool, in single-cell organisms too
Dysregulated proteins may be treatable at the epigenetics level to prevent the onset of leukemia
Studies show PTSD and phobias can be inherited courtesy of epigenetics
International respect for our CWD research
Guest post from Ada S Jaarsma about how epigenetics can add to the ethics conversation.
Control your epigenetics, control your health destiny
Genome Canada is pleased to announce 25 projects selected for funding as a result of the 2017 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Competition (B/CB).
The Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics is funded in part by Genome Canada, Ontario Genomics, and Genome Quebec.
