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CARTaGENE, a genetic map of health in Quebec

Researchers want to know more about Jean. That is why he recently received an invitation from the Québec public health insurance plan asking him to take part in a major project called CARTaGENE. An (...)

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Genomics Offering New Avenues for Breast Cancer Prevention

Jacques Simard, a professor at Université Laval's faculty of medicine and a researcher at CHUQ, is working on ways to detect breast cancer in its early stages. His approach involves using » View the information capsule

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DNA Offers Ray of Hope to Sufferers of Migraines with Auras

In partnership with Oxford University, neurologist Guy A. Rouleau and geneticist Ron Lafrenière of Montréal have conducted research that sheds new light on migraines with auras.

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Demystifying Pediatric Brain Cancer

Dr. Nada Jabado and her team at McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) have discovered why glioblastomas are unresponsive to standard chemotherapy and radiation.

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Working for the Prevention of Lactic Acidosis

Thanks to genomics, it is now possible to detect and prevent this disease.  

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