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Expert: Food Safety and Food Recall Warnings

Published: 13 June 2019

Food recall warnings by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency occurs almost every week in Canada. Here's an expert who can answers questions about food safety:

Québec siblings with rare orphan disease lead to discovery of rare genetic diseases

Published: 25 April 2019

Mutations in a gene involved in brain development have led to the discovery of two new neurodevelopmental diseases by an international team led by researchers at ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ and CHU Sainte...

Béluga: The latest supercomputer for Canadian researchers

Published: 26 April 2019

Imagine a computer 300,000 times faster than a PC, and with 67,000 times more storage space. Such is Béluga, a supercomputer now serving ±«ÓãÖ±²¥, Québec, and Canadian researchers.

Evolution, illustrated

Published: 1 February 2019

What do you get when you put together several tons of steel plates, hundreds of mice, a few evolutionary and molecular biologists and a tiny Nebraska town near the South Dakota border?...

The importance of ‘edge populations’ to biodiversity

Published: 17 December 2018

More than two-thirds of Canada’s biodiversity is made up of species that occur within the country’s borders only at the very northern edge of their range. Biologists have long debated how much...

Are scientists studying the wrong kind of mice?

Published: 4 December 2018

Mice represent well over half of the non-human subjects of biomedical research, and the vast majority of those mice are inbred. Formed by generation after generation of mating between brothers and...

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