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Mila is conducting several research projects in artificial intelligence to help stem the pandemic. One of them aims to bring together experts in data analysis as well as researchers in machine learning, bioinformatics, immunology, virology and vaccine design.

Science

Using AI to help contain COVID-19

30 March 2020

Article

Health

Tracking the enemy, down to its genes

25 March 2020

Article

A Quebec research team has just received the green light from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to test a device that will shorten the response time for detecting COVID-19.

Health

A faster test for COVID-19

19 March 2020

Press release

"There has been a lot of talk about climate disruption over the past decade, but we seem to forget that without forests and healthy oceans, some vital carbon sinks no longer play their regulatory role in biogeochemical cycles"

Society

Saving Africa's ecosystems

12 March 2020

Article

Capping a medical adventure that began in 1993, CHU Sainte-Justine children's hospital has just performed its 1,000th bone-marrow transplant, on a 12-year-old girl.

Health

A thousand transplants and counting

12 March 2020

Brief

Health

Shedding light on hidden HIV

4 March 2020

Press release

To empirically test their method’s identification potential, researchers selected six unidentified male skeletons that had been exhumed over the years at four historical cemeteries in Quebec.

Science

Anonymous no more:combining genetics with genealogy to identify the dead in unmarked grave

24 February 2020

Press release

Model chiral macrocycle (shown in blue) in the catalytic pocket of the enzyme CALB (shown in grey, catalytic serine shown in green). The figure was generated from the PDB ID 5GV5 using PyMOL Molecular Graphics System, Version 1.2r3pre, Schrödinger, LLC. The docking of the macrocycles was carried out with the Fitted program from the FORECASTER computational platform. Credit: Université de Montréal.

Science

Shaping the rings of molecules

21 February 2020

Press release

Health

Major discovery in the genetics of Down syndrome

20 February 2020

Press release

A novel mechanism of action in two new antibiotics to treat infections normally resistant to antibiotics has been discovered.

Health

Discovery of the 'Holy Grail' of antibiotics

12 February 2020

Press release

Researchers describe how injection of these potent anti-HIV antibodies is associated with enhanced T cell responses that specifically recognize the virus.

Health

HIV: proving a concept

3 February 2020

Press release

The first type of influenza virus we are exposed to in early childhood dictates our ability to fight the flu for the rest of our lives, according to a new study.

Health

What was your first flu?

30 January 2020

Press release

The first and senior authors of the study, Ning Wu and André Veillette.

Health Science

"Scrambled" cells fix themselves

28 January 2020

Press release

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

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

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

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