University of Alberta
Genetic Risk Score Helps Predict Severe Obesity Later in Life in Childhood Cancer Survivors
Risk prediction models picked up four times as many childhood cancer survivors prone to severe obesity in adulthood when genetic risk scores were included.
BioMark Diagnostics Nabs Canadian Funding for Lung Cancer Liquid Biopsy
The company is developing a metabolomic assay for early detection of lung cancer with academic collaborators at the University of Alberta.
Canadian Government, Partners Commit C$59.8M to Natural Resources, Environmental Genomics Projects
Funded projects include one developing environmental DNA analysis tools and another building a microbial platform to eliminate plastic waste.
CareDx, NanoString Collaborate to Develop Organ Transplant Rejection Test
CareDx will use NanoString's new Human Organ Transplant panel to develop HistoMap, a gene expression profiling test to identify allograft rejection.
Genome Canada Awards C$76.7M in Research Grants
The funding, provided in partnership with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, will support research applying genomics in agriculture and aquaculture.