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In total, 15,000 genomes will be sequenced from data collected from families living with an undiagnosed rare disease.

Health

Genomic sequencing, a powerful ally against rare diseases

5 March 2025

Press release

Brian Wilhelm's team.

Health

Small molecules to treat pediatric cancers

16 January 2025

Brief

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

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

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

The study offers promising avenues for the development of pharmacological treatment, gene therapy and cell therapy involving transplantation of GABAergic interneuron progenitor cells.

Health

Epileptic encephalopathies: the key role of a gene revealed

2 October 2024

Press release

Cancer treatments can cause damage to growing bodies, including neurocognitive, endocrine and cardiometabolic complications.

Health

Lifestyle habits can alleviate the effects of cancer treatment in children

7 August 2024

Article

Scientist pipetting sample into a multi well plate

Health

Sanfilippo syndrome: Major advancement towards developing a treatment

27 May 2024

Press release

Miriam Beauchamp and Dominique Dupont

Health

Concussions in young children: symptoms still present three months later

21 March 2024

Article

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

This study opens up new avenues for research and non-pharmacological approaches to improving the health of people born preterm, and underscores the importance of taking preterm birth into account in medical care at all ages.

Health

Prematurity may later impact cardiovascular and muscular health

24 January 2024

Article

Health

Screening newborns for "bubble-baby" disease saves lives

21 June 2023

Press release

Dr. Flavio Rezende and Dr. Cynthia Qian

Health

Ground-breaking gene therapy helps boy with congenital vision loss

30 May 2023

Article

Health

Kids' sleep apnea is under-diagnosed

31 March 2023

Article

Health

A new research chair for dementia-causing diseases in children

31 October 2022

Press release

Health

Decrease in relapses of Crohn's disease in youth

23 March 2022

Press release

During pregnancy, the serotonin and stress hormone systems play a role in the development of the unborn baby’s brain.

Health

Studying the placenta to better understand a child illness

16 November 2021

Press release

Health

Bourneville's tuberous sclerosis: everything unfolds in the brain shortly after birth

23 June 2021

Press release

In October and November of 2020, only 3.3 per cent of children had antibodies. By April 2021, in the third wave, 8.9 per cent of the students tested had antibodies.

Health

A small minority of Montreal children have had COVID-19

18 May 2021

Press release

In one of her recent studies, Arbour observed that the T-cells from patients respond much more strongly to interleukin 15 (IL-15) than those from healthy controls.

Health

Multiple sclerosis: how to halt its progression?

14 May 2021

Article

Health

Infants little affected by COVID-19

16 December 2020

Press release

Quebec has more cases than any other jurisdiction: there are less than 15 people with the disease here, making it one of the rarest diseases in the world.

Health

Vaccines and rare diseases

21 October 2020

Press release

Health

Tracking COVID-19 in kids

20 October 2020

Press release

Health

Mothers: CONCEPTION needs you

16 October 2020

Press release

Society

Childhood sexual abuse: mental and physical after-effects closely linked

21 September 2020

Press release

A team of researchers has succeeded in using bioinformatics to develop a statistical model to assess how the gain or loss of genetic material impacts the risk of autism.

Health

Studying the human genome to understand the risk of autism

11 September 2020

Press release

Health

Fish oil doesn’t help preemies

27 July 2020

Press release

This syndrome is characterized by a total absence of immune system function, including an absence of T-lymphocytes, the white blood cells that play a crucial role in the body's immune defence.

Health

For babies born with a rare immune deficiency, a unique new test to better target care

17 June 2020

Press release

A study aims to understand what protects children from the disease and thereby guide treatment in adults who are most affected.

Health

The kids are alright … but not the elderly

2 April 2020

Article

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