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Data to fight asthma and shark extinction

By: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate   Fighting chronic disease with a database Molecular biology and biochemistry professor Fiona Brinkman and her team of genomics and bioinformatics researchers are creating a database to help to prevent allergies, asthma, and other chronic diseases. As part of the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study, Brinkman and her team of researchers use the CHILDdb database to understand how genes and environment interact to cause chronic diseases such as asthma in children. The database has compiled data for more than 3,500 Canadian children from birth to age eight. Researchers in this project will look for indicators…

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