Recipe for opiates. Brain studies. Internet performance.

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• Lab Manager writes about concerns, within the scientific community, about the recent creation of genetically modified yeast that can be used to make opiate drugs. The breakthrough, which the article notes could open the door to the production of other drugs, such as antibiotics and cancer therapies, resulted from a Concordia/Berkeley study co-authored by Vincent Martin, professor in the Department of Biology and published last week in the journal Nature Chemical Biology. The research has since been reported by hundreds of news outlets worldwide.
• A CNW/Telbec release picked up by Le Lézard,  Shaw Connect and Longwoods includes Dajana Vuckovic, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, in a multi-disciplinary research team that has been awarded a grant from Quebec-based CQDM, Brain Canada and the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) to conduct a probe of in vivo studies of the brain. 
• Canadians Connected, an online publication of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), publishes a piece by Fenwick McKelvey, assistant professor in the Department of Communications Studies, about the ".CA Internet Performance Test": a new web application distributed by CIRA which McKelvey helped develop to test internet connection performance. The online article includes a Concordia-produced video where McKelvey explains how to run the internet connection testing tool. It also links to a Concordia release on the subject.

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