More than 100 years of conservation efforts to save the species, the wood bison face another major threat – the spread of disease and a lack of genetic diversity. Now, Canadian researchers are working to save the remaining herds in Canada through innovative genome-based solutions.

The Canadian Arctic is melting. Northern passages are opening to more ship traffic that pose higher risks for fuel spills. Now researchers from the University of Manitoba are experimenting with portable genome sequencing tools with Arctic indigenous communities to help meet the challenges of a changing Arctic environment.

Nearly three years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, much of the world is returning to a sense of normality. While the rate of death from the coronavirus may have decreased, researchers like Dr. Andrew Cameron are helping Canada and the world prepare for another near-term COVID threat: coinfections.

The world is projected to have significant food shortages in the years ahead. Does the Genome Prairie-supported 4DWheat project hold one of the keys to feeding humanity?

The World Health Organization declared a pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 was spreading through the population, and the systems in place to understand the virus were facing a seemingly insurmountable challenge.  Within weeks, the CanCOGeN project turned Saskatchewan and Manitoba public health laboratories into world-class centres for infectious disease genomics.

Intense genomic research at the University of Saskatchewan Crop Production Centre is helping to keep Canadian pulse producers ahead of intense overseas competition. 

As a part of Genome Canada's All For One initiative, the launch of the Canadian Prairie Metabolic Network has given Canadians hope that advanced genomics testing will provide them with answers and treatment for one of health's most challenging diagnostic conditions: Inborn Errors in Metabolism.

Genome Prairie Announces Launch of $30 Million Pan-Canadian Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative 

The Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Systems initiative will earmark $30 million in matching funding to support cutting-edge genomic research to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Canada’s food production system. This exciting initiative will take a first-of-its-kind strategy by mobilizing the collective research knowledge in Canada, including the academic, public, private, industry, and non-profit communities.