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Génome Québec salutes the Québec researchers for their performance in the Canadian Genomics Innovation Network competition by winning four of the ten projects! Congratulations to Philip Awadalla from Sainte-Justine UHC…

McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre in the top 6 of PacBio’ certified services provider!   This certification provides a competitive advantage to service providers and helps ensure that…

Sophisticated software cuts through the complexity of genomic data and makes it accessible to researchers and practitioners Compute Canada and CANARIE, two critical components of Canada’s national digital infrastructure supporting…

The IHEC Data Portal was developed to integrate and distribute datasets produced by various IHEC (International Human Epigenome Consortium) member consortia. The Portal was created by the team of Dr. Guillaume Bourque…

Congratulations to Dr. Sauvageau’s team who was voted Québec Science Discovery of the year thanks to the discovery of a new molecule that expands stem cells from umbilical cord blood.   This…

A study carried out by dozens of scientists, and published in Nature Genetics, identified 15 new genetic markers that can increase the risk of breast cancer. Each of these genetic variations, identified…

Researchers from Canada, the UK, Sweden and the US have discovered more than 30 genes that strongly affect an antibody involved in allergies and asthma. Some of the genes could…

Génome Québec is pleased to learn that a $3-million donation from Rio Tionto enables the CHU Sainte-Justine to lay the groundwork for a Centre for Rare Genetic Disorders to support…

Mixing our genes through sex helps purge us of disease mutations Researchers at the University of Montreal and the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre in Montréal, Canada have just shown…

The Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PED) kills young piglets at an astonishing rate with a near 100% mortality rate in suckling pigs. A Canadian effort has been launched to understand…