Today in Job of the Week, we are featuring an opening for Manager of Technical Development at Sequence Bio of St. John’s.

Founded in 2013, Sequence works with partners to analyze vast sets of data from gene pools to get a deeper understanding of which people are at the greatest risk of contracting a disease. It recently signed an agreement with Memorial University to use the university’s genetic

Agile Sensor Technologies Inc., a St. John’s maker of components for the robotics industry, has landed six figures in funding from and a partnership agreement with Gaitech International Limited of Shanghai, China.

Agile CEO Brian Terry said in an interview Thursday that the Chinese company has provided seed funding for his startup, which grew out of a research project at Memorial University of

So Maclean’s magazine has touched quite a nerve in New Brunswick.

The national weekly this month published an article with the apocalyptic title, “Can anything save New Brunswick?”

As expected, it catalogued a litany of problems, from the aging population to French-English friction to an economy that’s “in free fall.”

And as expected, New Brunswickers reacted to the article with indignation, expressed pointedly in traditional and social media. “New Brunswick’s economy isn’t in ‘free fall.’ It’s in transition,” countered the online business publication Huddle. It highlighted that

Three leading New Brunswick researchers will be honoured in Fredericton next Wednesday at the R3 Gala, which celebrates the innovations of the province’s top applied researchers.

They are: Liuchen Chang, NSERC Chair of Environmental Design Engineering at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton; Alain Doucet, Chief of Operations at the Metal Innovation and Technology Transfer Center

A Halifax company has launched a $500,000 to $800,000 crowdfunding campaign to test a revolutionary form of wind turbine that could improve the economics of wind power.

Lux Wind Turbines is raising money so it can build a test version of its new product, and send it to trials at the Wind Energy Institute of Canada in P.E.I. If the nine-month trials prove successful, the company believes its

Sackville, N.B.-based Soricimed Biopharma Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing peptide-based cancer therapeutics, has won a key regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S.

The company said in a statement the FDA has granted orphan-drug designation to Soricmed’s flagship compound SOR-C13 for the treatment of ovarian cancer. Orphan drug status qualifies Soricimed for various development incentives, including tax credits and reduced filing fees for clinical trials undertaken in the U.S.  If approved for commercialization by the FDA, SOR-C13 may

PACTA, the Halifax company whose technology helps to manage contracts, won the Atlantic Canadian stop in the Fundica Roadshow on Friday, securing a trip to and office space in Silicon Valley.

The Fundica Roadshow goes across the country, hearing pitches and rewarding the top pitching company in each city with a return trip to Silicon Valley, a Quickbooks subscription and a cloud hosting package

This week in Job of the Week, we are featuring a posting from a company involved in dental health: BlueLight Analytics of Halifax is looking for a software developer.

BlueLight specializes in the measurement of the curing light used to harden fillings in dental practices. The company’s products include checkMARC, MARC patient simulator, and MARC resin calibrator.

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As the American Dream gives way to the more socially responsible Millennial Dream, this region should work to attract and keep members of the millennial generation, argues Greg Hemmings, founder and CEO of New Brunswick’s Hemmings House Pictures.

Hemmings is one of the creators of a new documentary, The Millennial Dream, which explores the values of millennials and looks at how communities can

By attending a Canadian government program in Silicon Valley, Wolfville-based Singolar has initiated a relationship with one of the world’s biggest enterprise software companies.

Five weeks ago, we wrote that Singolar was heading to Northern California to attend the Canadian Technology Accelerator, or CTA, a program that the Canadian consular service offers in tech hubs around the U.S. and the world.

As it went through the program, Singolar got to know representatives of SAP, the German multinational that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relationships.