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Noting the current lack of clinical biomarkers needed to diagnose Parkinson's, the researchers believe that knowing the disease’s unique signature could help clinical teams diagnose it early on, from a blood sample.

Health

Diagnosing Parkinson’s using a blood-based genetic signature

29 May 2025

Article

While it can be caused by taking antidepressants or by having sleep apnea, RBD is also a precursor of Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, two neurodegenerative diseases that belong to the same family.

Health

Troubled sleep, troubling diagnosis

29 May 2025

Article

A team led by Sarah Lippé has developed a method that can determine in minutes whether a baby’s brain development is advanced, delayed or in line with their chronological age.

Science

AI takes only minutes to tell how mature an infant's brain is

27 May 2025

Article

Health

Chronic renal failure: discovery of a crucial biomarker

27 May 2025

Press release

For hypnosis to gain wider use in dentistry, several measures are needed, starting with standardization of techniques and protocols.

Health

Open wide ... and relax

23 May 2025

Article

May is Speech & Hearing Month in Canada—a timely reminder that aphasia is a fairly common consequence of stroke that affects a person’s ability to speak, understand, read and write.

Society

Finding a voice: people with aphasia sing out

22 May 2025

Article

Aaron Courville

Community

'I'm a researcher. This is what I do.'

21 May 2025

Article

Unlike traditional approaches that insert a functional gene to compensate for a defective one, prime editing works at the source: it literally corrects the mutation in stem cells to replace a faulty immune system with a corrected, functional one.

Health

A world first: "prime editing" reverses effects of rare illness

21 May 2025

Press release

In the fight against Lyme disease, personal protection remains the first line of defence.

Health

Breaking the cycle of Lyme disease transmission

20 May 2025

Article

People often think that a decline in testosterone is invariably due to aging, but in fact only 2 per cent of cases of hypogonadism are caused by age alone.

Health

Andropause: rising interest in falling testosterone

18 May 2025

Article

The study shows that, on average, babies who contracted HPV at birth were virus-free in less than four months.

Health

HPV: babies free themselves of the virus naturally

14 May 2025

Press release

Dr. Jean-François Côté, Marie-Bénédicte Pretty, Claude Leblanc, Dr. Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret, Léon Gosselin, Diane Gosselin, Mila Mulroney, Ruth Steinberg, David Steinberg, Marc Steinberg and Jean Beaulieu.

Health

Launch of the Mila and Brian Mulroney Philanthropic Chair in Diabetes at the IRCM

7 May 2025

Brief

Advanced practice physiotherapy is increasingly part of front-line care, much like specialized nurse practitioners.

Health

An expanded role for physiotherapists can mean better and faster care

5 May 2025

Article

The research is all the more relevant given that 72 per cent of pianists suffer from musculoskeletal disorders.

Science

When art meets science: the hidden risks of musical expression

28 April 2025

Article

Université de Montréal announces a $25-million funding drive backed by generous sponsors that aims to recruit top researchers and promising young talents to its campuses

Community

UdeM launches $25 million philanthropic initiative to recruit top research talent

23 April 2025

Press release

Currently, doctors rely primarily on monitoring a child's early developmental milestones, such as acquiring language and walking, to predict their later development.

Health

Trying to predict how an autistic child will develop cognitively

22 April 2025

Press release

Members of the ATLAS Collaboration next to a mural of the ATLAS Detector at CERN.

Community

$1 million U.S. for a project co-founded by UdeM

15 April 2025

Article

Left photo: mycorrhizal root showing intra-root vesicles and hyphae; top right photo: extracted hyphae and spores; bottom right photo: mycorrhizal fungal spore

Science

Plants, fungi and bacteria working together

15 April 2025

Article

Sébastien Sauvé

Science

How Sébastien Sauvé turned 'forever chemicals' into big news

15 April 2025

Article

In recent years, CAR-T cell immunotherapy (using chimeric antigen receptors) has revolutionized the fight against cancer.

Health

Aiming for high-precision immunotherapy

14 April 2025

Article

The guinea pig has long been used for studies in developmental biology and is very similar to humans in terms of general physiology.

Health

Guinea pigs: a promising animal model to study the human embryo

9 April 2025

Press release

One of the most common types of medicinal honey is mānuka honey from New Zealand or Australia.

Health

You can heal more wounds with honey

8 April 2025

Article

The study examined differences in background music listening during a host of daily tasks and less cognitive activities.

Culture

Music to their ears

2 April 2025

Article

It's the first time that scientists have successfully reverse-engineered the physical properties of cells located deep within a plant organ based on experimental data.

Science

Hidden forces shape plants from the inside out

1 April 2025

Press release

The Roger-Gaudry campus

Community

King Charles III Coronation Medal awarded to UdeM members

31 March 2025

Article

Workaholism is defined as addiction to work, characterized by “constant internal pressure and obsessive thoughts focused on work-related tasks”.

Society

Investing in your work: a fine balance between dedication and burnout

31 March 2025

Article

Aaron Courville

Community

Aaron Courville appointed interim scientific director of IVADO

27 March 2025

Article

There are more crimes that can lead to deportation than one might think.

Society

How Canadian immigration law turns judges into border guards

27 March 2025

Article

The medical community may want to reconsider and review the established criteria used to diagnose autism – as the current criteria seem both inadequate and responsible for the over-diagnosis of autism that has been widely documented around the world.

Health

Using LLMs to understand how autism gets diagnosed

26 March 2025

Press release

The system developed by the Bouilly laboratory will facilitate the manufacture of devices based on graphene and other 2D materials.

Health

Manipulating the very small at large scale

26 March 2025

Article

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