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Federal government getting pressed on many sides to adopt Naylor report
Researchers, university administrators, students and others across Canada rally in an unprecedented effort to ensure the government doesn’t ignore the report’s recommendations. Canada’s academic community has…
How Are We Now? Inuit Health Survey Returns to Nunavik
A health survey of Inuit communities in northern Quebec found widespread food insecurity and other problems 13 years ago. A follow-up now underway will see how…
Genome editing in human embryos inches closer to the clinic
On Aug 2, Nature published a study in which US-based researchers successfully edited the genome of a human embryo using the CRISPR-Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-CRISPR-associated protein…
Ivy Asks… Are there other planets like Earth?
Ivy wanted to know if there were other planets like Earth out there, so she asked an expert from the University of New Brunswick…and took a…
CMA adopts patient focus
The Canadian Medical Association’s new three-year strategy, CMA 2020, aims to make the organization more outward-facing and patient-focused. The changes came after a period of soul-searching on…
Cybersecurity for the travelling scientist
Virtual private networks, tracking apps and ‘burner’ laptops: how to protect sensitive data when you take your research on the road. Mark Gerstein has had his…