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Fighting genetic diseases
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Dr. Francis Choy and his team at the UVic’s Centre for Biomedical Research are investigating three rare, inherited diseases that affect young children and for which there are, as yet, no affordable and reliable treatments. All three diseases—Gaucher disease, Sanfilippo syndrome and glycine encephalopathy—involve the inability to produce certain enzymes necessary for intracellular structures called lysosomes and mitochondria to digest and eliminate used material.
Fighting online exploitation
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UVic’s International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD)—based at the Centre for Global Studies—is overseeing a new international collaboration that fights online child exploitation.
Fighting the flu
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The flu season is here—and it’s likely H1N1 according to the provincial health authorities monitoring the situation in the province. UVic Health Services is seeing an increasing number of students coming to its clinic with flu-like symptoms, and the BC Centre for Disease Control says it considers 98 to 99 per cent of all flu cases to be H1N1.
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