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BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute treks to the Kootenays
For high school students, thinking about the future can be daunting, especially given the seemingly limitless options ahead of them. Dr. Ramon Klein Geltink was in a similar position — “I never knew what I wanted to do until I started working in a lab during my undergraduate degree,” he says. “I worked with a…
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How are COVID-19 mRNA vaccines linked to the gut microbiome and dietary fibre intake?
Dr. Genelle Lunken (formerly Healey) is a microbiome investigator at BC Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Lunken recently led a study looking at COVID-19 vaccination and its association with the gut microbiome and dietary fibre intake.
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BC Children’s Hospital leads international quest for answers to severe allergies
The patient was a mystery that confounded the medical teams at BC Children’s Hospital their entire life. Patient 10, as they are known in a study that was just published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, stumped experts across several specialties. They had multiple medical conditions including severe food and drug allergies, asthma and eczema,…
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