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A study says that artificial intelligence improve educational and clinical decisions made by your child’s teacher, or your mental-health professional or even your medical doctor.

Health

AI to help monitor behaviour

27 January 2020

Press release

Single parents are less likely to butt out, ban cigarette smoking and keep the home smoke-free than two-parent families.

Health

Lighting up with kids around

24 January 2020

Press release

An UdeM research team used a technique known as gene editing to recreate and introduce into their model a genetic mutation that causes the disease.

Health

Hope for patients with a rare genetic condition

23 January 2020

Press release

Excavation of a double burial at Shum Laka Rockshelter in Cameroon, containing the remains of two boys who lived ~8000 years ago and who were genetically from the same family. Ancient DNA reveals that these two individuals and another pair of children buried three millennia later at Shum Laka were from a stable population that was then almost completely replaced by the very different populations living in Cameroon today.

Society

Where do we come from?

22 January 2020

Press release

Veterinarians now have a scale that measures the level of pain in cats based on the position of the animal's ears, nose, whiskers and eyelids.

Science

The "Feline grimace scale" gets published

17 January 2020

Press release

Science

Climate change unlikely to drive sugar maples north

13 January 2020

Press release

Damselfishes on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, including species used by the researchers in their study.

Science

Double-checking the science

8 January 2020

Press release

Community

An honour for Yoshua Bengio and two graduates

1 January 2020

Brief

HeLa cell expressing the proximity interaction probe BirA*-Flag-active RAC1. Actin filaments are in green and biotinylated proteins are in magenta.

Health

Gone fishin' ... for proteins

23 December 2019

Press release

Health

Turning to genetics to treat little hearts

16 December 2019

Press release

Health

Blood transfusions: fresh red cells no better than older ones

10 December 2019

Press release

Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

Community

UdeM animal-rights advocate wins Rhodes Scholarship

5 December 2019

Press release

Researchers have found that adolescents increased their drinking in response to short-term elevations that exceeded their 'normal' level of depressive symptoms.

Health

When depression drives you to drink

4 December 2019

Press release

Society

Putting the gig economy on trial

2 December 2019

Article

Health

When space travel is a blur

28 November 2019

Press release

An illustration of a plasmacytoid dendritic cell. PDCs patrol the body, detecting pathogens and orchestrating an antiviral response.

Health

HIV: overwhelming the enemy from the start

26 November 2019

Press release

Community

Fish, fish and more (sustainable) fish

25 November 2019

Press release

Health

Injection drug use: not the same across Canada

14 November 2019

Press release

Cara Tannenbaum

Science

Sex and gender in science: why they matter

14 November 2019

Press release

The blood-brain barrier protecting our brain from attacks becomes permeable in people with multiple sclerosis, allowing a large number of lymphocytes to infiltrate and damage the tissues.

Health

Slowing the progression of multiple sclerosis

13 November 2019

Press release

Society

Beyond the clichés: a video portrait of daily life in the former GDR

8 November 2019

Article

22 adult patients with advanced blood cancer participated in a clinical trial. The results far exceeded expectations.

Health

Blood cancers: a “new generation” stem cell transplant

5 November 2019

Press release

The MIL Campus of the Université de Montréal will be hosting a cross-sector and transdisciplinary discussion on December 5-6 on “The Sources of Rhythm.”

Society

Could rhythm be at the root of everything around us?

4 November 2019

Article

The mission of the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape at Université de Montréal is focused on education, awareness-raising and support for municipal experts, governments and citizens in the development of their landscapes in order to ensure the quality of urban living environments.

Society

The UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape at Université de Montréal builds bridges

25 October 2019

Article

A new cell therapy approach that boosts the immune response of T lymphocytes to malignant tumours has been discovered.

Health

Cancer treatment: HMR researcher makes breakthrough immunotherapy discovery

24 October 2019

Press release

David Saint-Jacques et René Pelletier

Science

René Pelletier, the osteopath who helped David Saint-Jacques readjust to life on Earth

15 October 2019

Article

Health

Tired of being tired? Sleep On It!

24 September 2019

Press release

Community

MIL Campus: birth of a neighbourhood

23 September 2019

Article

Community

Université de Montréal Science Complex Holds Opening Ceremony

20 September 2019

Press release

An international research team has developed a new strategy that can predict the potential clinical implications of new therapeutic compounds based on simple cellular responses.

Health

Speeding up the drug discovery process to help patients

13 September 2019

Press release

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