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Sdentists have identified a new gene variant that seems to strongly raise the risk for Alzheimer’s disease, giving a fresh target for research into treatments for the disease. The main reason scientists are excited by the discovery is what this gene does, and how that might reveal what causes Alzheimer’s and ways to prevent it.…

November is Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Month. We invite you to learn more about Dr John D. Rioux’s team work on the subject in Nature‘s article “Host|[ndash]|microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease”: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v491/n7422/full/nature11582.html And for further explanations: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121101153601.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

In a major step toward an era of personalized medicine, researchers 1000 Genomes Project,  involving 700 scientists from laboratories in the U.S., Canada (including researchers in Québec), China, Japan, Nigeria and Kenya, among others, reported (ref Nature) that they have sequenced the complete DNA material of more than 1,000 people from 14 population groups in…

The 2012 Prix du Québec Marie-Victorin in natural science and engineering was awarded to Pr. Louis Bernatchez from Université Laval, considered by many as a world leader in the study of molecular ecology. To learn more (in French only): http://www.prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/recherche/desclaureat.php?noLaureat=453

The researchers Jacques L. Michaud (CHU Ste-Justine), Jacek Mejewski (Université McGill) and Guy A. Rouleau (CHU Ste-Justine) have discovered mutations in TMEM231 causing Joubert syndrome, a rare desease in French Canadian population. Read more in the Journal of Medical Genetics, October 15, 2012.   The project is part of the FORGE Canada Consortium and the…

The 2012 Prix du Québec Wilder Penfield has been awarded to Dr. Guy Rouleau to underline his remarkable career and his discoveries in the field of genetics. The researcher identified twenty genes responsible for neurological and psychiatric diseases, including several rare diseases unique to Québec. To learn more (in French only): http://www.prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/recherche/desclaureat.php?noLaureat=458

The Government of Canada and Génome Québec awards key funding for researchers at the Innovation Centre The McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre will receive generous support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Génome Québec to continue its trailblazing research in the field of epigenetics. The support announced today by the funding…

Montreal-led international research group awarded $ 1.8 million for research on Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Dr. John D. Rioux, researcher at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Université de Montréal, has been awarded$ 1.8M from the prestigious US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in support of his research…

During his visit to Québec City for the BioContact congress, Robert Klein of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, addressed the participants on the importance of funding genomics. Robert Klein, from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is not one to stand idly by when destiny strikes. In the early 2000s, when his son was…