Tag Archives: Science

Scientists say they have used the gene editing tool CRISPR inside someone's body for the first time, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases. A patie...

VANCOUVER - The potential for a worldwide pandemic has kept scientists in Canada at the ready and placed them at the forefront of the global response to the outbreak of the new coronavi...

It was as if the past literally reached out and touched him. Parks Canada archaeologist Marc-Andre Bernier spent last summer diving into the wreck of the HMS Erebus, the flagship of the Franklin exped...

PORT HURON, Mich. - U.S. border officials say they've seized a human brain that was found in a Canadian mail truck originating in Toronto. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said ...

OTTAWA - Canada will aim $6.5 million at research on stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus, after co-ordinating with researchers around the world on tackling the outbreak. Representatives of&nb...

OTTAWA - Canadian researchers are returning from a World Health Organization summit with a vision for Canada's role in tackling the novel coronavirus, now known as Covid-19. Representatives from aroun...

OTTAWA - Renowned Canadian epidemiologist Bruce Aylward will be leading a team of World Health Organization experts in China to study the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Aylward arrived in Chi...

OTTAWA - Renowned Canadian epidemiologist Bruce Aylward will be leading a team of World Health Organization experts in China to study the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Aylward arrived in Chi...

CALGARY - A fearsome lizard with a name meaning "reaper of death" is the first new tyrannosaur species to be identified in Canada in 50 years, say researchers with the University of Calgary ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is set to release some urgent funding to study the novel coronavirus - including the fear it causes. The federal granting agency says it wants ...