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One patient’s rare disease leads to new insights into diabetes: Q&A with Chi Kin Wong
Over one million Canadians suffer from a rare disease. In Dr. Bill Gibson’s lab at BC Children’s Hospital, scientists are…
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Exploring the lifelong impacts of our earliest experiences: Q&A with Dr. Sarah Moore
Can experiences in infancy and childhood affect our health later in life? Are we born with our personalities or are…
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BC and UK partnership to tackle rare diseases through genomics
A new partnership pilot project between Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) and Genomics England will focus on improving the diagnosis…
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Silent Genomes: Reducing health-care disparities and improving diagnostic success for Indigenous children with genetic disease
Genome Canada’s 2017 Large-Scale Applied Research Project (LSARP) Competition will support six innovative projects led or co-led by investigators at…
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Genomic and outcomes database for pharmacogenomics and implementation studies (Go-PGx)
Genome Canada’s 2017 Large-Scale Applied Research Project (LSARP) Competition will support six innovative projects led or co-led by investigators at…
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GenCOUNSEL: Optimization of genetic counselling for clinical implementation of genome-wide sequencing
Genome Canada’s 2017 Large-Scale Applied Research Project (LSARP) Competition will support six innovative projects led or co-led by investigators at…
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Care4Rare Canada: Harnessing multi-omics to deliver innovative diagnostic care for rare genetic diseases
Genome Canada’s 2017 Large-Scale Applied Research Project (LSARP) Competition will support six innovative projects led or co-led by investigators at…
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BC Children’s Hospital researchers successful in prestigious national funding competition
BC Children’s Hospital’s role as a national leader in the field of pediatric precision health was highlighted today with the…
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PEGASUS-2: Personalized Genomics for Prenatal Abnormalities Screening Using Maternal Blood
Genome Canada’s 2017 Large-Scale Applied Research Project (LSARP) Competition will support six innovative projects led or co-led by investigators at…
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Childhood asthma and the microbiome – precision health for life: The CHILD study
Genome Canada’s 2017 Large-Scale Applied Research Project (LSARP) Competition will support six innovative projects led or co-led by investigators at…
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Lisa Decotret works to stop cancer in its tracks by understanding how it spreads
Lisa Decotret knows firsthand the destructive effects of cancer, she is a childhood cancer survivor herself. Decotret was diagnosed with…
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Research that’s more than skin deep: Q&A with Paulina Piesik
On the surface, our skin is a barrier surrounding our bodies. But underneath those layers, our skin tells a bigger…
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