Tag Archives: research

Biotron is a unique facility where scientists make important connections as they investigate the mechanisms of global environmental transformation.

Innovative Canadian researchers are advancing the young field of gene therapy and it will make recovery from a stroke possible.

Through gene therapy, scientists in Alberta are offering a glimpse of hope to sufferers of a rare retinal disease in the near future.

PEARL monitors the world’s changing environment and plays host to international scientists

Experiments in and human cells show that activating sweet taste receptors the intestine produce a certain hormomone which amps up the production of insulin.

Researcher Dr. Judes Poirier discovered a possible risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease.

Ontario's concentration of research institutions and life sciences businesses has created the ideal climate for advances in the biotechnology spaces.

Seventeen-year-old Miranda Li's passion for stem cell research led her to work on an innovative project about characterizing suicide genes.

In 1973, Torontonian Frank L. Graham and Alex J. van der Eb of The Netherlands co-developed a technique for introducing DNA into mammalian cells.

Over the past 30 years or so, bioprocessing in Canada has grown at exponential rates from the early days of research-based companies.