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USask awarded $3 2M towards first-in-Canada engineering biology center for ag innovation : Biofuels Digest biofuelsdigest.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from biofuelsdigest.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“This new centre will establish the University of Saskatchewan as the national node for engineering biology applications in agriculture and food that will accelerate science and innovation,” said USask Vice-President Research Dr. Baljit Singh. “Using automation and other emerging technologies, our researchers will harness the power of biology to design more nutritious and sustainable crop varieties and food products.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced more than $518 million to support the infrastructure needs of universities and research institutions across the country. Engineering biology is an exploding new field that combines genomics and molecular biology with high-performance computing, automation, and artificial intelligence, potentially transforming what we eat, medicines we take, and fuels we use. A May 2020 report from the McKinsey Global Institute estimates engineering biology could have a global economic impact of up to $4 trillion in the next 10 t
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Here is a snapshot of the U of S projects that received funding:
Integrated omics for sustainable animal agriculture and environmental stewardship (IntegrOmes)
Funding amount: $6.76 million
Project: A multidisciplinary research team and collaborators from other universities and organizations are working on a wide-ranging research program, looking at bison conservation and addressing challenges facing the beef cattle industry.
The group is working with Indigenous communities to develop the world’s first bison genome biobank, in order to store and preserve genetic material of plains and wood bison populations in Canada. The model could have future applications for other threatened Canadian species.