Unless you’re a minimalist or “just trying to cut down”, more is usually better. That’s certainly the case with the Genomics of Swine Health-2 Project. As Genome Alberta researchers strive to improve disease resilience in pigs through genomics, more data means a better chance of achieving their goal. So it’s little wonder they’re excited about joining forces with another research project that complements their own. “For years we have dovetailed the funding we got from…

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Ellen Goddard is a social scientist who has been part of a number of research projects funded by Canada's Genomics Enterprise. Her latest involvement is with the Genome Alberta led project on Chronic Wasting Disease. The role of someone from the social sciences in a genomics project on CWD might seem a bit strange at first, but freelance broadcaster Don Hill went out to find the answer. It turns out her role is to look…

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While some teams make you long to “go it alone”, an effective team can be much more than the sum of its parts. For proof, look to Genome Alberta and its efforts to apply genomics in positively impacting feed efficiency and methane emissions in dairy cattle. Researchers on the project understand the power of collaboration and have included several partners in their quest. One associate playing a big role is the Dairy Research and Technology…

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Ellen Goddard is a social scientist who has been part of a number of research projects funded by Canada's Genomics Enterprise. Her latest involvement is with the Genome Alberta-led project on Chronic Wasting Disease. The role of someone from the social sciences in a genomics project on CWD might seem a bit strange at first, so freelance broadcaster Don Hill went out to learn more. It turns out her role is to look at the…

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Billed as “a slow catastrophe” by public health officials, the golden age of antibiotics is winding down. “We’re seeing more drug-resistant infections,” said Harvard University infectious disease epidemiologist William P. Hanage in an article. “And people will die.” That isn’t hyperbole. In 2016, the U.S. found the first case of a bacterium with the mcr-1 resistance gene. That is the gene that is responsible for making the disease impervious to mankind’s strongest antibiotic. The presence…

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Bioinformatics, genomics, personalized medicine, oh my! While each borders on the miraculous, and combined they radically change medicine as we know it, these terms tend to sound like mere buzz words to most people. To confuse matters more, the term bioinformatics is rarely heard in the U.S. and a few other countries. So, while these three terms sound like buzz words, they aren’t all buzzing at the same volume around the world. No wonder there’s…

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Genome Alberta's Chronic wasting disease is lead by Debbie McKenzie and David Wishart at the University of Alberta but they are just the tip of a large team of researchers working on new ways to test for CWD in wildlife and in the environment. The fatal, brain destroying disease is found in deer, elk, and moose in North America and has the potential to kill as many as 2 million animals. Not all strains of…

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NEWS RELEASE | March 22, 2017 Vancouver,  British Columbia Research project focuses on patients on mental health medications Vancouver, BC — Imagine if before taking a medication, you could walk into your local pharmacy and take a test that could accurately predict whether the medication would work for you and the dosage best suited to you—all based on your DNA. This is the genesis behind a BC-based research project “Genomics for Precision Drug Therapy in…

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