Thank you for all the support from around the world! It did not go unnoticed, we will be back 🇨🇦 #Hunts #Sandy #Kyle #MenOfTheNorth

UBC scientists spent decades developing Glybera, the world’s first approved gene therapy. But market forces needed just two years to make the potentially life-saving drug disappear. newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/glybe…

Israel to Sequence 100K People, Create Genomic Database to Support 'Digital Health' and establish itself as a "world leader in precision medicine". Canada as yet does not have such a vision. genomeweb.com/sequencing/isr…

On being asked if an institute could be named after him, Fred Sanger replied "it had better be good". We celebrated the centenary of Fred Sanger this year, and hope we have made you proud #HoHoHighlights

One Couple’s Tireless Crusade to Stop a Genetic Killer wired.com/story/sleep-no… via WIRED

Celebrating the 100th pediatric personalized onco-genomics (POG) patient. Thank you to this brilliant team, bringing cutting-edge science to the treatment of childhood cancer. Let’s add another zero & make it 1000! #PrecisionMedicine #EndCancer BC Cancer Foundation BC Cancer

Today was a historic day for cancer research and care in 🇨🇦. The new Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres network will unite researchers and institutions like never before, bringing them together to help find cures for all cancers. #MarathonOfHope #TeamCanadaOfCancerResearch

A new BC Cancer study using #AI and whole genome sequencing is demonstrating that computers can provide an accurate cancer diagnosis: bit.ly/2VGrWOh

20 min waiting for a taxi YVR. So much room for improvemt... Known flight schedules should allow for pretty easy planning.

By creating the #TeamCanadaOfCancer research and allowing researchers and doctors to share data and use new technologies like #AI, the Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network Cancer Centres network will help make #PrecisionMedicine for cancer a reality.

YVR CEO Craig Richmond finally located Ryan Reynolds - but his quest to tell the world we are a community-based, not-for-profit airport continues! Retweet and enter to win a $1000 travel voucher. #FindingRyan @vancityreynolds

Ever wonder what is the best way to remove rRNA from low input and partially degraded samples? Researchers @BCCancer_GSC have compared rRNA depletion protocols and have published their results in PLOS One! #RNAseq #PLOSONEauthor journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

@BCCancer_GSC will be one of four Canadian institutions on the forefront of using genome science to understand how different people respond to COVID-19 infection ow.ly/46Nj50zo1tX

Supreme Court of Canada upholds Genetic Non-Discrimination Act, rules the law is constitutional. The law prevents 3rd parties, such as employers and insurance companies, from demanding genetic information from individuals. Previous story: cbc.ca/1.5643245

Throwback to 5 years ago when Tony Fauci, at 74 yo, was suiting up to treat an Ebola patient himself because he "wanted to show his staff that he wouldn't ask them to do anything he wouldn't do himself". This is what leadership looks like. sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/w…

Canadian PI's involved in #COVID19 clinical studies can now participate in #HostSeq. Once you have the proper ethics in place, you can send us your biological samples. We will extract DNA, perform whole genome sequencing and return data to you at no cost! cgen.ca/project-overvi…

Small piece of an airway from our first real Xenium run. Over 34M transcripts across a 1.5cm^2 region. Not a bad first shot on goal! 10x Genomics #spatialtranscriptomics #spatialbiology

Beluga whale genome sequenced for the first time bit.ly/GC_Beluga GenomeBC #genomics

Why we need to expand personalized treatment in British Columbia bccancerfoundation.com/blog/march-05-…

It's official! Michael Smith Labs will be hosting a scientific #symposium on Oct 1 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Michael Smith's Nobel Prize. Speakers include Feng Zhang, Molly Shoichet, Janet Rossant, and more.