Notre projet de recherche vise au développement d’un nouveau système neuroprosthétique. Cette étude nous permettra à raffiner les paramètres d’une lésion médullaire cervical à fin d’investiguer la récupération de la motricité fine à l’aide d’une neuroprothèse intra-corticale. Nous avons démontré l’efficacité de cet outil de neuromodulation dans la restauration de la marche du membre postérieur. […]

Le projet proposé se porte sur l’étude de l’utilisation de digestats de biométhanisation comme substrats pour la cultivation de microalgues et d’élevage d’insectes de mouches soldats noirs. Les microalgues et les insectes sont les organismes capables hautement d’utiliser les matières résiduelles en produisant leurs biomasses. Dans cette étude, le digestat solide de biométhanisation sera utilisé […]

The recent covid pandemic has demonstrated the need to develop new rapid vaccine technology. Even the newest mRNA technology has limitations, including short duration of immunity, poor stability, and is relatively expensive. Pegasus Biotech is in the process of developing a new class of DNA plasmids that are optimally designed for vaccine use, are low-cost, […]

There are Atlantic sturgeon in the Restigouche River estuary. This species is millions of years old and it is still found in our waters today. Fishers have reported their sightings every year in the last decade. Unfortunately, this species is now considered to be a species at risk of extinction. Because their numbers are so […]

Development of high yielding winter wheat cultivars, resistant or tolerant to different stresses, with good agronomic and quality characteristics, is important to wheat growers and industry. Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a serious wheat disease caused by a fungus Fusarium graminearum. FHB epidemics in Ontario were reported in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2013 and 2015. […]

The heart beats an incredible 2-3 billion times in one’s lifetime. This amazing feat is made possible by highly organised electrical signals passing through the heart tissue. Disturbances of the heart’s electrical activity (known as ‘arrhythmias’) can be deadly, as they impair its ability to pump blood to the body. While various treatments for the […]

Cargill is looking to improve the data collection and injury risk assessment process by leveraging the Lifebooster technology. The Lifebooster system has been leased and will be used for 12 months as a proof of concept project. The goal of the POC is to evaluate the ability to collect PDD data with wearable technology, and […]

The heart is a complex organ that pumps the equivalent of an Olympic-sized swimming pool of blood to the body each day. To accomplish this incredible feet, millions of cells must work together in a coordinated manner, enabled by tight connections between their electrical and mechanical activity. In cardiac diseases these connections are disturbed, which […]

Yeast is a single celled micro-organism that converts carbohydrates to carbon dioxide and alcohols through the process of fermentation. Yeast is very useful in many industries and there are no local producers of yeast in Canada. This research will focus on optimizing the growth of selected marine yeast strain isolated from the marine environment for […]

Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is an important natural source of cannabinoids for consumer products. Mainly grown outdoors, unintended cross-pollination can result in a significant loss of cannabinoid yield via seeding. To overcome this risk, the team intends to develop seedless, triploid varieties of hemp with high minor cannabinoid content, notably cannabigerol (CBG) O cannabichromene (CBC). […]

The most common sea cucumber (SC) found in the North Atlantic Ocean is orange footed Cucumaria frondosa. SC is packed with numerous high-value nutraceutical and pharmaceutical components. During SC processing, flowers are separated as by-products representing around 8-10% of the live weight and sold at a very low price. These by-products are rich sources of […]

Aquafeed is supplemented with essential fatty acids derived from fish products (fishmeal and fish oil). However, fish oil production is dropping due to rapidly depleting wild resources. Therefore, the aquafeed industry must move to other sources of essential fatty acids, such as oils from terrestrial origins [3]. When more than 80% of fish oil in […]