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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

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

Le professeur Gilles Brassard, de l’Université de Montréal

Science

Gilles Brassard honoured by the BBVA Foundation for his work in quantum computing

3 March 2020

Brief

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

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

Two new online courses in artificial intelligence will be offered to millions of new learners.

Science

Democratizing data science

12 February 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

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

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

Community

An honour for Yoshua Bengio and two graduates

1 January 2020

Brief

Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

Community

UdeM animal-rights advocate wins Rhodes Scholarship

5 December 2019

Press release

Society

Putting the gig economy on trial

2 December 2019

Article

Society

Beyond the clichés: a video portrait of daily life in the former GDR

8 November 2019

Article

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

The MIL Campus of the Université de Montréal will be hosting a cross-sector and transdisciplinary discussion on December 5-6 on “The Sources of Rhythm.”

Society

Could rhythm be at the root of everything around us?

4 November 2019

Article

Health

Tired of being tired? Sleep On It!

24 September 2019

Press release

Community

MIL Campus: birth of a neighbourhood

23 September 2019

Article

Community

Université de Montréal Science Complex Holds Opening Ceremony

20 September 2019

Press release

An artistic representation of the exoplanet K2-18b.

Science

Water detected on an exoplanet located in its star’s habitable zone

11 September 2019

Press release

Rue Cousineau, Cartierville, neighborhood of Montreal, 8 May 2017.

Science

Getting the picture on climate change

3 September 2019

Press release

The researchers examined the relationship between the positive parenting of mothers when their child was four years old and the inhibitory control of the child at six years of age to see if they could predict ADHD symptoms at age 7.

Society

Preventing ADHD: positive mothers, well-behaved kids

14 August 2019

Press release

People who suffer a major concussion can lose their sense of smell temporarily and also develop affective problems, such as anxiety and depression. Now scientists have found that's true even for people who get a minor concussion.

Health

Hit your head, lose your sense of smell

23 July 2019

Press release

Children whose parents often get angry at them, spank them, yell at them or shake them as a way to discipline them could be adversely affected right into their teenage years.

Health

'Harsh parenting' might alter kids' brains

16 July 2019

Press release

Artist's illustration of gas streaming from GJ 3470 b.

Science

Probing a new class of exoplanets

2 July 2019

Press release

(L-to-R): Salvatore Martire, Giovanni Adamo, Francesco Di Feo.

Culture

Italy: a new view of the old Left

13 June 2019

Article

Université de Montréal was honoured today to welcome 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege to its School of Public Health (ESPUM).

Community

Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege visits UdeM, signs agreement and picks up degree

7 June 2019

Press release

Tom Mulcair, Sara Teitelbaum and their CERIUM summer school students pose with their hosts in Kahnawà:ke.

Community

Learning which way the wind blows

5 June 2019

Brief

A new study finds that children who engage in organized physical activity at a young age are less likely to have emotional difficulties by the time they turn 12.

Health

Sticking to sports can help kids adjust

4 June 2019

Press release

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