The future arrived in North Bay on a rainy day last summer. There, on the shores of Lake Nipissing, the genomic age stepped into Richard Procunier’s drugstore. As the birthplace of the Dionne ...

The team, led by Prof. Brendan Frey, third from the left, uses 'deep learning' computer technology to read the three billion characters that represent the genome, which was first sequenced in 2003.

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases we know. It commonly impacts the lungs, but can also affect other areas of the body like the spine, brain or kidneys.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a new way to read the human genome, which could answer stubborn questions about how flaws in DNA lead to disease. The team, led by Prof. Brendan ...