A first for Canada: Concordia launches Genome Foundry

Concordia University celebrated a Canadian first Monday with the launch of its Genome Foundry, a laboratory that allows researchers to break down and study genomes, or a complete set of genes, faster and more efficiently than ever before.
The new facility, located on the university’s Loyola campus in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, speeds up their work by “multiple orders of magnitude,” said Vincent Martin, researcher and co-director of Concordia’s Centre for Applied Synt