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Play ball! (It’s good for you)

27 September 2021

Press release

Sidney Altman

Community

A Nobel prizewinner in chemistry joins the IRCM and UdeM

21 September 2021

Press release

A rendering of the enzyme complex named HTC

Science

Staying young, from the cells on up

16 September 2021

Press release

Health

Expectant mothers who have HPV could be at high risk of giving birth prematurely

15 September 2021

Press release

Health

AI can make better clinical decisions than humans: study

9 September 2021

Press release

“The legume crop white lupin (L. albus) is one such arsenic tolerant plant species being studied as for sustainable remediation”, explains Adrien Frémont, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in biological sciences at the Université de Montréal.

Science

Lupin and Arsenic: research on soil decontamination by an exceptional plant

24 August 2021

Press release

Almost one in six Canadian couples is affected by infertility.

Health

Lagging chromosomes among causes of infertility

24 August 2021

Press release

Artistic representation of the exoplanet Tau Boötis b and its host star, Tau Boötis

Science

A hot and dry Jupiter: SPIRou reveals the atmosphere of the exoplanet Tau Boötis b

28 July 2021

Press release

Aerial view of the ruins of the Minoan palace in Malia, Crete, Greece

Science

Using archeology to better understand climate change

20 July 2021

Press release

Participants were followed from the age of five months and the study was based on their responses to questionnaires collected at ages 13, 15 and 17.

Society

Cannabis: sexually diverse young people with depression use more

19 July 2021

Press release

In HER2-positive breast cancer, a gene called HER2 is expressed that promotes an aggressive form of the disease.

Health

Promising new research on aggressive breast cancer

13 July 2021

Article

Health

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

23 June 2021

Press release

Willows are naturally tolerant of contamination and their roots filter out nitrogen from wastewater, tripling the biomass produced, which can then be harvested to make renewable biofuels.

Science

A ‘bio-refinery’: using the chemistry of willow trees to treat Canada’s city wastewater

21 June 2021

Press release

ALS is an incurable neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the selective loss of motor neurons.

Health

ALS: decoding its molecular mechanisms to improve treatment

14 June 2021

Article

This approach has never been attempted in audiology but has been used in psychology with patients being followed for depression. It has proven possible to predict, on the basis of facial expressions, whether a therapy would be effective.

Health

Phantom noises and hypersensitivity to sound: tech to the rescue?

3 June 2021

Article

Pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) is particularly prevalent in toddlers; they’re more likely to be injured because they have a lower sense of danger and are still developing physically. But parents and clinicians have trouble detecting symptoms of trauma, given the toddler’s limited verbal skills.

Health

Head injury and concussion in toddlers: early detection of symptoms is vital

1 June 2021

Press release

The study was designed to determine whether colchicine, commonly used in cardiology, could prevent the risk of severe complications from COVID-19.

Health

Colchicine study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

27 May 2021

Article

What return-to-work plan should employers adopt, knowing that two out of three people want to continue working remotely?

Society

Back to the office: a major post-pandemic test for employers

27 May 2021

Article

Society

Are you happy or angry in front of the screen?

25 May 2021

Article

Health

A brand new cocktail to fight HIV

20 May 2021

Press release

Vincent De Guire, Nancy Schoenbrunner and Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, three of the five co-founders of Anasens

Health

Anasens: a UdeM start-up with a bright future!

19 May 2021

Article

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

Gilles Brassard

Science

Gilles Brassard named an international member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

13 May 2021

Article

Science

Roger David Kornberg, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry, to speak May 20

12 May 2021

Article

Health

A personalized anti-cancer vaccine that works in mice

11 May 2021

Press release

Health

Cystic fibrosis: towards better treatment and stronger lungs

5 May 2021

Press release

Health

Artificial intelligence is driving research at the IRIC

29 April 2021

Article

Diego Urbina and Romain Charles from Europe, Sukhrob Kamolov, Alexey Sitev, Alexandr Smoleevskiy and from Russia and Wang Yue from China

Health

Feeling confinement in the gut

23 April 2021

Press release

Funded by Canada’s National Sciences and Engineering Coucil, the survey was completed using open-source software in January and February 2020 by 140 Canadian faculty members.

Science

Sharing open data: sometimes costly but mostly good

20 April 2021

Article

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