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UM171 breaks new ground

30 June 2025

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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

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

The study involving 170 seniors with an average age of 76 found that O’stress, a six-week stress management program, had beneficial effects on the emotional health of participants.

Society

Innovative program helps seniors manage stress

3 February 2025

Press release

The PreVenture program is today offered in schools in five Canadian provinces as well as in 12 U.S. states.

Society

Preventing substance-use disorders in teenagers

16 January 2025

Press release

NS is a rare disease in which various complications can arise, particularly heart-related.

Health

Preventing serious heart problems in children

8 January 2025

Press release

Red fronted lemur (Eulemur rufifrons)

Science

Why are lemurs nearly extinct, and yet so diverse?

7 January 2025

Press release

The research team led by Prof. Alexis Vallée-BélisleThe has discovered how to program biomolecules or nanomachines so that they can activate at different times, acting as molecular timers. The image illustrates that time, at the molecular level, can be programmed by the very biomolecules that make up living organisms. It focuses on DNA, the biomolecule that has enabled the research group to study the biochemical mechanisms that regulate time.

Science

Tinkering with the “clockwork” mechanisms of life

19 December 2024

Press release

David Lau and Stephanie Tobin show that body-weight control in mice is strongly modulated by neurons in the nucleus accumbens.

Health

Targeting a brain enzyme to curb obesity

16 December 2024

Press release

Given the pressing need to develop therapeutic interventions against vision loss, researchers around the world are testing different ways to repair damaged macula.

Science

Using stem-cell transplants to treat blindness

6 December 2024

Press release

The study revealed that fish-oil omega-3 supplementation was effective in inhibiting the effects of LDL on adipose tissue inflammation and its association to risk factors for Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Health

Killing two birds with one stone

29 November 2024

Press release

Allophone children who attended daycare show better cognitive development, improved social and emotional skills, and greater communication abilities.

Health

Preschool education: A key to supporting allophone children

28 November 2024

Press release

Just as some people are more likely to catch a respiratory virus through close contact, others are more susceptible to ‘catching’ the emotions of the people around them.

Society

“Emotional contagion” a factor in senior’s mental health

8 November 2024

Press release

This study provides new scientific insights into the etiology of Crohn’s disease, chronic and incurable disease whose causes are not yet fully known.

Health

Inflammatory bowel disease: the crucial period of early childhood

29 October 2024

Press release

These recent scientific advances mean that the “shock-and-kill” eradication strategy, often used in the fight against HIV, can be foreseen in a different way.

Health

An antidiabetic helps the immune system recognize reservoirs of HIV

11 September 2024

Press release

The mere fact of being a younger age, combined with economic factors like losing their job during the pandemic, made people more likely to think of suicide than they did before, the study suggests.

Society

A pandemic of despair

6 September 2024

Press release

This is the first time that this signaling pathway (GAS6 and AXL) has been directly implicated in insulin resistance.

Health

Type 2 diabetes: new light on cellular mechanisms causing insulin resistance

23 August 2024

Press release

The researchers found that LGBTIQ+ individuals and their milieu of cisgender heterosexual families and friends both had significantly higher levels of biological stress markers like cortisol and cortisone in their hair during the campaign than before or after.

Society

Is holding a referendum on equality stressful for LGBTIQ+ people?

23 July 2024

Press release

Clinique Mauve was conceived as an intersectoral collaborative effort. Its main partner is the community organization Agir Montréal, the only organization supporting LGBTQIA+ refugees and migrants in Montreal.

Health

$750,000 for UdeM’s Clinique Mauve

17 July 2024

Press release

Temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b may be a world completely covered in ice (left) similar to Jupiter’s moon Europa or may be an ice world with a liquid substellar ocean and a cloudy atmosphere (centre). LHS 1140 b is 1.7 times the size of our planet Earth (right) and is the most promising habitable zone exoplanet yet found in the search for liquid water beyond the Solar System.

Science

Found with Webb: a potentially habitable world

8 July 2024

Press release

An analysis of pan-Canadian data reveals a significant increase in the hospitalization rate during the most stringent public health measures, all across Canada.

Health

Eating disorders among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic

8 July 2024

Press release

Scientist pipetting sample into a multi well plate

Health

Sanfilippo syndrome: Major advancement towards developing a treatment

27 May 2024

Press release

Most of the body's cells have a structure called the primary cilium, or simply, cilium. This structure acts like an antenna, responsible for detecting signals in the cell's environment.

Science

'Antennae' of cells: a protein plays a major role

25 April 2024

Press release

Pioneer factors are the master regulators of the genome and epigenome: any disruption of their action has major consequences.

Science

Keys to the genome: unlocking the package

10 April 2024

Press release

This artist's concept shows a "brown dwarf," a space object more massive than a planet but smaller than a star. Brown dwarfs usually have binary companions, but as they age some of these binary systems gravitationally fall apart, and each brown dwarf goes its separate way, according to a study led by Université de Montréal astronomer Clémence Fontanive.

Science

UdeM astronomer finds that "brown dwarfs" grow old alone

21 March 2024

Press release

Food abundance or scarcity seems to influence the extent of the role played by the genes of the mother and the unborn baby.

Health

How the brain develops in unborn babies

19 February 2024

Press release

Community

Introducing the co-chairs of UdeM’s new fundraising campaign

15 February 2024

Press release

Community

Université de Montréal launches the largest fundraising drive in its history

15 February 2024

Press release

Guided by an external magnetic field, miniature biocompatible robots, made of magnetizable iron oxide nanoparticles, can theoretically provide medical treatment in a very targeted manner.

Health

Treating liver cancer with microrobots

14 February 2024

Press release

The ring-shaped heart tissues are printed with a bioink containing a patient's stem cells.

Health

A "heart on a chip"

14 February 2024

Press release

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