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Canada Loses Measles Elimination status after three decades
On Nov. 10, 2025, Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its…
McGill physicists manoeuvre DNA molecules using electrical fields
On Oct. 2, 2025, researchers in McGill’s Department of Physics announced they have developed a new device that can trap…
AquaBounty Announced Plans to Cease Fish Farming Operations
On Dec. 11, 2024 the Board of Directors of AquaBounty Technologies announced that the Company was winding down…
Moderna received Health Canada authorization for second Omicron-targeting bivalent booster
On Nov. 3, 2022, Health Canada authorized an adapted version of the Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine that targets…
USDA confirmed COVID-19 in a Canada lynx at a Pennsylvania zoo
On Dec. 21, 2021, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories announced confirmation of…
Construction of the Biologics Manufacturing Centre in Montreal completed
On Jun. 22, 2021, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) announced it had completed construction of the…
National Research Council of Canada supported development of 4 COVID-19 therapeutic candidates
On Dec. 18, 2020, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) announced it was providing advisory services and…
Aurinia and Lonza announced exclusive agreement for dedicated Voclosporin manufacturing capacity
On Dec. 15, 2020, Aurinia Pharmaceuticals announced the funding and initiation of an open-label exploratory trial evaluating the…
Canadian Cancer Trials Group announced IND.234 clinical trial using liquid biopsy technology for prostrate cancer screening
On Nov. 27, 2018, the Canadian Cancer Trials Group, a new clinical trial, opened across Canada. This was…
Prime Minister Trudeau announced federal funding for the Institute for Advanced Medical Isotopes
On Nov. 13, 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced federal funding for the Institute for Advanced Medical…
The FDA approved AquaBounty Technologies’ application to sell the AquAdvantage genetically engineered salmon
On Nov. 19, 2015, AquaBounty Technologies announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the Company’s…
World’s first use of low-dose radioactive palladium ‘seeds’ was used to treat breast cancer patients at the Women’s Research Institute in Toronto
In 2004, the world’s first use of low-dose radioactive palladium ‘seeds’ as used to treat breast cancer patients…
Philip Seeman reported the discovery of antipsychotic/dopamine receptors, paving the way for new medicines
In 1974, Professor Philip Seeman MD, PhD, DSc FRSC, Order of Canada, an ACNP Member Emeritus reported the…
Frederick Banting and Charles Best administered insulin from the pancreas’ of dogs proving insulin’s efficacy in treating human diabetes
In 1921, Frederick Banting and Charles Best who extracted the hormone insulin from the pancreas’ of dogs and…