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UBC’s Life Sciences Institute (LSI) has become a designated UBC Global Research Excellence Institute (GREx)…

Genome Canada has launched a new $30 million Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Systems genomics initiative…

Genomic research is leading to incredible advances in modern-day healthcare but combining health and genomic…

Researchers from Dr. Karen Cheung’s lab are developing an innovative instrument that performs highly precise…

Biomedical engineer Carl de Boer is taking a different approach to understanding how the genome works. Most…

Over the past 20 years, scientists have made great strides in understanding the brain and…

Over half a million Canadians are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related form…

At the age of 16, John Chernesky lost the use of his legs following a…

A small percentage of hormone-sensitive prostate cancer patients develop metastases in the lung after localized…

There have been a lot of headlines of late warning about Canada’s “data deficit,” the…