The University of Toronto Announces Free OpenHelix Tutorial and Training Materials for GeneMANIA, a Gene Function Prediction Tool
From PRWeb: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/08/prweb4373684.htm
Complete online tutorial suite now available from OpenHelix for the free, publicly available gene function prediction tool GeneMania.
The creators of GeneMANIA have contracted with OpenHelix to provide comprehensive online training for the gene function prediction tool (http://genemania.org ).
Advancing Technology Innovation through Discovery: A new partnership betweenthe Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Genome Canada
From Genome Canada: http://www.genomecanada.ca/en/medias/news.aspx?i=359
OTTAWA, ON (July 23, 2010) - Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are pleased to announce a partnered program called “Advancing Technology Innovation through Discovery”.
Toronto study finds genetic links to autism
From the Toronto Star: http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/familyhealth/article/821063--toronto-study-finds-genetic-links-to-autism
A Toronto-led consortium of international researchers has described the clearest picture yet of how genetics influences autism, the developmental disorder that affects an estimated one in 110 children.
Government of Canada Celebrates Canada’s Top Researchers in Science and Engineering
OGI-funded researcher Dr. Shana Kelley is awarded an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship. For more information on this work click here.
Original news release from: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Media-Media/NewsRelease-CommuniqueDePresse_eng.asp?ID=198
First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell Constructed by J. Craig Venter Institute Researchers
Q&A: SickKids' Scherer Moves Up to 'Bigger Rink' as New McLaughlin Centre Director
Q&A with Dr. Stephen Scherer - from GenomeWeb BioArray News: http://www.genomeweb.com//node/940390?hq_e=el&hq_m=712909&hq_l=3&hq_v=afb106d81a
Last week the McLaughlin Centre, a decade-old University of Toronto institution that aims to advance genomic medicine through research and education, appointed Stephen Scherer its new director.
Canadian Scientist Awarded 9th Ebbe Nielsen Prize
From the Global Biodiversity Information Facility: http://www.gbif.org/communications/news-and-events/showsingle/article/canadian-scientist-awarded-9th-ebbe-nielsen-prize/
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) today announced the winner of the 9th Ebbe Nielsen Prize as Mr. Sujeevan Ratnasingham, a Canadian scientist credited with the development of the Barcode of Life Data (BOLD) Systems.
Scherer to lead $50M genomic medicine program at Toronto's McLaughlin Centre
U of T researchers crack 'splicing code,' solve a mystery underlying biological complexity
TORONTO, ON – Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered a fundamentally new view of how living cells use a limited number of genes to generate enormously complex organs such as the brain.
Amorfix Life Sciences Announces World’s First Detection of Aggregated Beta-Amyloid in Blood Using the Alzheimer’s Diagnostic A4 Assay
TORONTO, ON – Amorfix Life Sciences, a company focused on treatments and diagnostics for misfolded protein diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), announced today the detection of the AD-associated aggregated Beta-amyloid (ABeta), the hallmark of AD, in the blood from the most-frequently-used animal model of AD. The assay detects both oligomeric and fibrillar aggregates of ABeta, which are generally considered to be the toxic forms and major contributors to brain dysfunction in AD.
