Life Sciences and Healthcare

BioVectra, a leading Canadian biotech and pharmaceutical CDMO based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, has appointed two new members to their board of directors. Gordon C. McCauley, the [...]

A viral load is the quantity of virus in a given volume of fluid – usually a biological fluid like blood, saliva etc. There is a correlation between viral load and infection rates – [...]

A new tool has been developed by an Alberta company MEDO, which combines current thyroid scanning methods with artificial intelligence to simplify the classification of thyroid nodules. Thyroid [...]

In the 2016 fiscal year, Canada’s leading research hospitals spent a total of nearly $2.5 billion on research, which represented a 4.1% increase in spend over 2015. The data was released by [...]

Licensed producers of medical cannabis may not realise that they are performing scientific research or experimental development (SR&ED). Upon closer inspection however, such producers may [...]

Innovation is essential for creating new jobs in today’s knowledge economy. Canada is the world’s 11th largest economy and has plenty of room to improve. Innovators have time and again [...]

One of the major barriers for companies claiming the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Program is self-censorship and a misconception over what industries qualify. [...]