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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 Â鶹AV 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 Â鶹AV, 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...

$5-million gift to Â鶹AV’s global food security institute supports efforts to understand and reverse world hunger and malnutrition

Published: 10 October 2018

Every night, some 800 million people – one in nine people on earth – go to bed hungry. And projections suggest that unless creative solutions are found, the world will need to increase food...

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