Preventing and exposing fish fraud with advanced biotechnology

Progress is being made on addressing serious fraud in the international fish market and industry supply chain. DNA barcoding – which involves comparing short gene sequences from a sample fish filet to a library of known species’ barcodes – is being used to verify the identities of various fish being caught, distributed, and sold in North America.

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Preventing future pandemics using social media and search engines

Social media and Google search result data is often used for advertising purposes, however, a University of Guelph computer scientist is using that data to track and stop disease spread.

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Kids’ health improves with UV-treated well water

Ultraviolet (UV) light may be the key to treating contaminated private well water that could be causing significant gastrointestinal and respiratory illnesses in children.

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What is the right way to deal with livestock mortality?

Livestock mortality management is not something most of us think about on the daily – let alone the environmental, economic, epidemiological and mental health implications of our current management methods.

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Local health informatics expert making a global impact

Years ago, Dr. Theresa Bernardo received a call from a colleague in the Caribbean asking about the safety of live animal imports from Europe. Little did she know that answering that request would lead to the launch of a multi-lingual database and mapping system to track the global spread of animal diseases.

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