Innovating Canada
innovation
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Tech startups are powering the shift to hybrid working
As some workers return to the office and others stay home, businesses are leaning on innovative technologies to keep employees healthy and engaged. Moving a gym online requires some technological heavy lifting. During the pandemic, thousands of fitness studios turned to Toronto-based WellnessLiving to help them make the leap. The company, whose software simplifies processes...
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Canadian Innovators: Breaking Through the Pandemic
Many working and operating outside of the entrepreneurship space have the common misconception that Canadian startups and scale-ups primarily serve local markets, and do not have global scaling potential.
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Innovative Solutions to Increasing Demands within the Agrifood Industry
Demands around food are changing. Consumers are increasingly looking for meals that are convenient and sustainably produced, while still meeting their health and nutrition needs. While plenty of options are available for meeting Canadians’ protein needs, plant-based foods are some of the most likely to check all of the above boxes. And with each new...
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The Science Speaks for Itself: Exciting Relief Options for Children’s Eczema
When atopic dermatitis causes our babies and children to suffer from itchy, dry, and inflamed skin, probiotics are providing a new option for scientifically demonstrated relief.
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The Microbiome Holds a Key to Human and Environmental Health
The International Microbiome Centre at the University of Calgary is a world leading research centre for studying the microbiome of humans, animals, plants and the physical environment.
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Studying How to Improve Health by Reshaping the Gut Microbiome
Researchers at McMaster University’s Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute are investigating how changes in the gut resident bacteria can lead to disease and developing strategies for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
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Are Your Drugs Right for Your Gut?
The Figeys Lab at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine tailors nutrition and drugs to each person’s unique microbiome.
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Understanding the Microbiome: Discerning Fact From Fiction
Probiotic supplements to improve health. Medical treatments involving fecal exposure. Restrictive fad diets. The pros and cons of antibiotics. Risks associated with water-borne bacteria.
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What is the Microbiome, Why Do We Care, and What’s the Importance of Microbiome Research?
What exactly is the microbiota, how is that different from microbiome and why do we need to learn more about it through research?
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The Connection between the Microbiome and Crohn’s Disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects so many people from young to all stages in life, 1/250 people have IBD. When someone asks what causes it, we say “we think you have a genetic predisposition and that somehow alters the way your immune system responds to the environment including the microbes that are in your gut”. Having said that we do not really understand what that means, we cannot tell you what triggers the disease or what changes in the gut microbiome cause the disease, we know some genes are associated with increased risk but we are not even sure how those genes or defects in those genes lead to the disease. There are a lot of unknowns.
