Have you ever seen an apple with blotchy skin or an avocado with strange yellow markings? These abnormalities could be the result of the plant suffering from a viroid infection. Viroids are small,…
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18 Aug 2021
According to the World Health Organization, cancer was the leading cause of death worldwide in 2020 1. With countless individuals dying from breast, lung, colorectal and other forms of cancers daily…
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17 Jun 2021
In the past, diagnoses were limited to what could be observed by an attending physician with their own senses. As one might expect, this resulted in wildly varying levels of patient care and…
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04 Jun 2021
The human body is capable of wondrous phenomena. Our white blood cells help heal cuts and wounds, our salivary enzymes help break down foods, and our gut microbiome helps us digest nutrients. But did…
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22 Mar 2021
If experts say that colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most preventable and often curable diseases, then why does it still consume 10.2% of all cancer cases globally?
In 2020, 26,900 Canadians…
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04 Mar 2021
Is it possible that your COVID-19 workflow is not as accurate as you may think?
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and laboratories scrambled to develop SARS-CoV-2 test kits in mass…
4 min read
02 Mar 2021
For the first time ever, the Human Genome Project gave researchers the ability to sequence the base pairs of human
DNA and read a human's entire genetic makeup. The project took around 13…
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08 Feb 2021
The world as we all know it changed dramatically in the early months of 2020 with the onset of COVID-19. With business closures and hospital overloads occurring around the globe, researchers…
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29 Sep 2020
In this blog, you’re going to learn what makes saliva a viable alternative to nasal and oral swabs for the detection of SARS-CoV-2.
This post includes statistics on real-life examples of SARS-CoV-2…
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