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Montreal-led international research group awarded $ 1.8 million for research on Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Dr. John D. Rioux, researcher at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Université de Montréal, has been awarded$ 1.8M from the prestigious US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in support of his research…

During his visit to Québec City for the BioContact congress, Robert Klein of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, addressed the participants on the importance of funding genomics. Robert Klein, from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is not one to stand idly by when destiny strikes. In the early 2000s, when his son was…

An article of Philip Awadalla and his team has just been published in the Journal of Epidemiology: Cohort profile of the CARTaGENE study: Quebec’s population-based biobank for public health and personalized genomics.   Abstract: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dys160? ijkey=XqcOQPsEIDemgus&keytype=ref Full Text: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/dys160? ijkey=XqcOQPsEIDemgus&keytype=ref PDF: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/dys160? ijkey=XqcOQPsEIDemgus&keytype=ref

An article on Glioblastoma published in Cancer Cell : from Nada Jabado and Stefan M. Pfister http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108%2812%2900364-9?switch=standard Also in Cancer cell: Methylome Alterations “Mark” New Therapeutic Opportunities in Glioblastoma http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108%2812%2900403-5

After rewarding Watson and Crick discovery of DNA in 1962, the work of Barbara McClintock in 1983, the identification of the human genome in 2002, stem cells in 2007, and in 2009, the work on the “immortality” of the genome, genomics is once again honored in 2012 with the Nobel Prize in Medicine!   The…

An excellent article has just been published in the September issue of the Evolutionary Applications journal. The article demonstrates the absence of effects of genetic selection on white spruce even after intensive selection. The genotyping of the trees was done with the support of McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre. A scan involving 1134…

Researchers at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center and University of Montreal have identified genetic origins in 10% of an important form of congenital heart diseases by studying the genetic variability within families. “This is more than the sum of the genes found to date in all previous studies, which explained only 1% of the disease,…

Researchers from Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center and University of Montreal have identified several novel genes that make some children more efficient than others in the way their immune system responds to malaria infection. This world-first in integrative efforts to track down genes predisposing to specific immune responses to malaria and ultimately to identify the most…

Researchers from the Guy Rouleau Laboratory affiliated with the CHUM Research Centre and the CHU–Sainte-Justine Research Centre have discovered the genetic cause of a rare disease reported only in patients originating from Newfoundland: hereditary spastic ataxia (HSA).    This condition is characterized by lower-limb spasticity (or stiffness) and ataxia (lack of coordination), the latter leading…

DNA is much more complex than researchers had believed it in the early 2000s. Since 2003, some 450 researchers from more than thirty laboratories based in different countries (mainly USA, Europe and Asia) worked on the ENCODE project (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) : Scientists have identified each DNA sequence and analyzed their function. The result?…