Major federal and provincial investments in genomics researchÌýwere announced this week followingÌýthree recent Genome Canada competitions.ÌýThe announcement, madeÌýat University of Guelph, includes over $10 millionÌýin funding to seven projects led by McGill researchers. Here's a quick look at one of those projects.Ìý(AÌýcomplete list follows.)
Highly complex interactions among roots, fungi and bacteria underlie the ability of some trees to clean polluted land, according to a novel study by bioinformatics and plant-biology experts from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and Université de Montréal.
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What if we could reduce rates of a wide range of devastating mental illnesses through early detection? Thanks to a significant gift of $2.9M from the Irving Ludmer Family Foundation to The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ (The Neuro), hope is on the horizon through the expansion of a major collaboration to understand why some children are vulnerable to conditions like autism, attention deficit disorder and social anxiety, and what can be done to prevent these disorders before they take hold. This collaboration will also explore brain disorders in the aging population, such as dementia, in an unprecedented investigation of mental health across the lifespan.