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sector_ico_Health_trans Health
Mitigating an Infodemic...

This episode also comes from Genome BC's Annual Genomics Forum. This discussion examines the importance of not sensationalizing data and being clear what the science means. Overly ...

June 22, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Health
Speed to Impact with Dr. Anthony Fauci...

This episode discusses the public health response to Covid-19 aided by genomics. Speed from sequencing to public health response: data drives course which requires flexibility to a...

June 10, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Health
Public Health Lessons from COVID-19 and Getting Ready for Future Pande...

COVID-19 with a relatively low R factor and mortality rate has challenged our health care system, society in general and our economy. Canada and the rest of the world were caught r...

June 01, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Health sector_ico_GenomicsSociety_trans Genomics and Society
Bridging the Genomic Divide...

Genomics has advanced health care by allowing medical treatments to be tailored to the specific needs of individual patients in what is sometimes described as ‘precision medicine...

April 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Health
Upping Your Game: Sports and Genomics...

In sports, any leg up to help edge out the competition is welcome. In fact, diet, sleep and supplements are key strategies that athletes have used for years to enhance their perfor...

February 17, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Health
Fighting COVID-19 at the intersection of policy, treatment and prevent...

This episode of the Code of Life picks up where the last one left off: a Q&A with BC’s Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, Dr. Mel Krajden, Medical Director at the B...

December 03, 2020
sector_ico_Health_trans Health
Fighting COVID-19 at the intersection of policy, treatment and prevent...

The next couple of Code of Life episodes are very special. Every year Genome BC holds the Don Rix Distinguished Keynote Address featuring some of BC's most spectacular and world-re...

November 26, 2020
sector_ico_Health_trans Health
Re-writing the Code of Life...

Two scientists recently shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for transforming an obscure bacterial immune mechanism, called CRISPR, into “genetic scissors” – an editing tool ...

November 04, 2020
sector_ico_Forestry_trans Forestry
How Genomics is Helping Combat Invasive Pests and Pathogens...

Healthy forests support a healthy environment. They purify the water and the air, maintain wildlife habitats and help preserve healthy soils, just to name a few.  Studies are also...

September 23, 2020
sector_ico_Health_trans Health sector_ico_GenomicsSociety_trans Genomics and Society
How Genomics is Helping Eradicate Malaria...

Malaria kills an estimated 400,000 people every year. In many countries, it's the leading cause of death in children and pregnant women. But malaria isn't just a health issue - it'...

August 28, 2020
sector_ico_Health_trans Health
How Genomics is Helping Eradicate Cervical Cancer...

Every year, cervical cancer kills about 400 Canadian women. Worldwide, cervical cancer kills one woman every two minutes. But cervical cancer is a completely preventable illness. T...

August 06, 2020
sector_ico_Environment_trans Environment
How Genomics Helped the Future of Belugas...

When the Vancouver Aquarium lost their two beloved belugas to a mysterious illness, they turned to genomics to help. They were able to completely sequence a beluga genome for the f...

June 25, 2020
sector_ico_Agrifood_trans Agrifood
How Genomics is Shaping the Way We Eat...

The way we ate 1,000 years ago is vastly different from the way we eat now. And two scientists who specialize in how food is produced believe the way we’ll eat in 1,000 years wil...

June 11, 2020
sector_ico_Agrifood_trans Agrifood
How Genomics is Saving our Honey Bees...

Humans aren’t the only ones fighting a pandemic right now. Honey bees are also at risk, under attack by a parasite that is killing millions of colonies around the world. Much lik...

May 28, 2020
sector_ico_Health_trans Health
How Genomics Helped Crack the Code of COVID-19...

In the early stages of a pandemic, the world needs answers fast. Genomics, the mapping of genes, is helping to find those answers with unprecedented speed. Two scientists at the BC...

May 14, 2020
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