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VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - September 18, 2014) - Cumulative impacts of population growth and land use practices may be leading to the "invisible collapse" of Canada's freshwater fisheries. A new...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - July 29, 2014) - A group of BC scientists has implemented a sophisticated screening process to ensure an effective, but expensive, Hepatitis C...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - June 10, 2014) - Today the International Cooperation to Sequence the Atlantic Salmon Genome (ICSASG) announced completion of a fully mapped and...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - March 17, 2014) - A Vancouver based team led by Dr. Poul Sorensen, and funded in part by Genome BC, is providing meaningful advances in...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Feb. 25, 2014) - Chlamydia is one of the most widespread sexually transmitted bacterial diseases in the world, causing an estimated 92 million...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Jan. 23, 2014) - Automation and robotics are integral aspects of scientific research and efficiency is key to its effectiveness. Coastal...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Dec. 18, 2013) - British Columbian researchers got a boost today with the announcement of a new $7.5 million fund to seek solutions to...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Dec. 4, 2013) - Two BC researchers have combined forces to develop a blood test that will identify patients at high risk for Chronic...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Nov. 29, 2013) - Genome British Columbia is pleased to announce a significant advance in the treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Sept. 18, 2013) - In 1998, Walter Hiebert was given what amounted to a death sentence: he was diagnosed with HIV and given just six months to...