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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

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

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

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

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

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

Health

Tired of being tired? Sleep On It!

24 September 2019

Press release

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

Society

Canadians in every riding support action on climate change

5 September 2019

Press release

Rue Cousineau, Cartierville, neighborhood of Montreal, 8 May 2017.

Science

Getting the picture on climate change

3 September 2019

Press release

A research team found that the differences between people diagnosed with autism and the rest of the population are shrinking.

Health

Is it autism? The line is being increasingly blurred

21 August 2019

Press release

The researchers examined the relationship between the positive parenting of mothers when their child was four years old and the inhibitory control of the child at six years of age to see if they could predict ADHD symptoms at age 7.

Society

Preventing ADHD: positive mothers, well-behaved kids

14 August 2019

Press release

Health

Stress and resilience: why sex and gender matter

14 August 2019

Press release

People who suffer a major concussion can lose their sense of smell temporarily and also develop affective problems, such as anxiety and depression. Now scientists have found that's true even for people who get a minor concussion.

Health

Hit your head, lose your sense of smell

23 July 2019

Press release

Gut infection can lead to a pathology resembling Parkinson’s disease in a mouse model lacking a gene linked to the human disease.

Health

Can gut infection trigger Parkinson’s disease?

17 July 2019

Press release

Children whose parents often get angry at them, spank them, yell at them or shake them as a way to discipline them could be adversely affected right into their teenage years.

Health

'Harsh parenting' might alter kids' brains

16 July 2019

Press release

Critical for the coordination of immune responses, CD4 T cells are important white blood cells (lymphocytes) that help control chronic infections like HIV.

Health

HIV: holes in the immune system left unrepaired despite drug therapy

15 July 2019

Press release

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