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Yellowknife's Back Bay in Winter in Canada's Northwest Territories

Science

Measuring Climate Change in the Hands of Residents of Northwestern Canada

9 April 2021

Article

It’s an $8M, multi-institution collaboration aimed at studying the developmental origin of neurological conditions in order to find new ways of treating them.

Health

NeuroBasis, a new multi-institution project, is launched

30 March 2021

Press release

More than 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, according to the World Health Organization, with nearly 20,000 Canadians diagnosed every year.

Health

Predicting when epileptic seizures will happen

26 March 2021

Article

Health

BMI1, a promising gene to protect against Alzheimer's disease

23 March 2021

Press release

Society

Does ‘harsh parenting’ lead to smaller brains?

22 March 2021

Press release

Health

HIV: an antidiabetic drug to reduce chronic inflammation

18 March 2021

Press release

Food workers have been at high risk of infection with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.

Health

COVID-19: how does it affect the people preparing food?

17 March 2021

Press release

In Montreal, for every 1,000 black English-speaking children, 19.6 had their situation assessed by the youth centre, compared to 5.9 for other visible minority children and 3.5 for white children.

Society

Black children are overrepresented in Quebec's child welfare system

16 March 2021

Article

Quebec’s strict confinement rules have greatly reduced the possibility to prepare for the death of loved ones, to be able to thank them, say goodbye and bring some peace to the relationship – all steps that help survivors grieve.

Society

COVID-19: when mourning is put on hold

10 March 2021

Article

The Quebec study will build on an existing CITF-funded study named EnCORE, which has been determining the number of students and of children at daycares who have SARS-CoV-2 in four Montreal neighbourhoods.

Health

How many teachers have had COVID-19?

4 March 2021

Press release

Health

4 million pregnancies and over 20 years of data

3 March 2021

Press release

Morbid obesity is caused by the inaction of melanocortin, a hormone that regulates appetite and energy expenditure.

Health

A new way beckons to treat severe obesity

26 February 2021

Article

Patients enrolled at IPCO will be followed for one year and will go through a series of tests to provide data on the possible effects of the disease and early detection of anomalies.

Health

A post-COVID-19 research clinic welcomes its first patients

23 February 2021

Press release

Irina Rish

Science

Irina Rish speaks on the role of women in science

11 February 2021

Press release

Diabetic retinopathy is caused by a degeneration of the small blood vessels that feed the retina and that regrow abnormally.

Health

Discovery of a new drug for diabetic retinopathy

11 February 2021

Press release

Bee flying towards a Cape jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) flower.

Science

When the bloom is off

3 February 2021

Press release

For their study, Bergeron and Geoffrion recruited 373 hospital staff – doctors, nurses, orderlies and others – at the CHUM, the CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal and the CIUSSS of the Capitale-Nationale.

Health

Despite challenges, Quebec health-care workers adapting well to stress

3 February 2021

Press release

Health

Trying to break your dependency on cocaine? Here’s one way that doesn’t seem to work.

27 January 2021

Press release

Community

UdeM open access policy: publications are freely available to all

25 January 2021

Article

Health

Abnormal hyperactivation in the brain may be an early sign of Alzheimer’s

21 January 2021

Press release

Artistic rendition of the exoplanet WASP-107b and its star, WASP-107. Some of the star's light streams through the exoplanet's extended gas layer.

Science

A ‘super-puff’ planet like no other

18 January 2021

Press release

Discovered at IRIC, UM171 was developed as a collaboration between a team of chemists led by UdeM associate professor of chemistry Anne Marinier and a group of biologists under the supervision of Guy Sauvageau. It was named in 2014 in honour of Université de Montréal.

Science

UM171: the molecule that keeps on giving

12 January 2021

Article

Health

New use for an old drug

16 December 2020

Press release

Health

Could existing drugs be used against COVID-19?

16 December 2020

Article

So far, parents representing 1,000 children ages 2 to 17 daycares and schools in Beaconsfield and the Plateau have answered questionnaires.

Health

Very few Montreal children got COVID-19: survey

14 December 2020

Press release

"We believe that as researchers, our mission is not only to communicate our findings within the scientific community, we must also share our findings with a larger audience."

Society

How COVID-19 makes us behave … or not

7 December 2020

Article

Photo de neurones reprogrammés par Janelle Drouin-Ouellet à partir de cellules de peau de patients atteints de la maladie de Parkinson. Les noyaux cellulaires sont marqués en bleu, tandis que les marquages vert et rouge montrent deux protéines exprimées dans des neurones matures.

Health

A novel approach to Parkinson's disease

4 December 2020

Article

Ravi Rungta

Health

What makes a healthy brain?

4 December 2020

Article

Anne-Marie Mes-Masson

Science

Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, one of Canada’s '100 Most Powerful Women'

1 December 2020

Brief

Health

A gene mutation that protects against disease

19 November 2020

Press release

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