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Tracking the enemy, down to its genes

25 March 2020

Article

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

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

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

Community

An honour for Yoshua Bengio and two graduates

1 January 2020

Brief

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

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

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

A new cell therapy approach that boosts the immune response of T lymphocytes to malignant tumours has been discovered.

Health

Cancer treatment: HMR researcher makes breakthrough immunotherapy discovery

24 October 2019

Press release

David Saint-Jacques et René Pelletier

Science

René Pelletier, the osteopath who helped David Saint-Jacques readjust to life on Earth

15 October 2019

Article

An international research team has developed a new strategy that can predict the potential clinical implications of new therapeutic compounds based on simple cellular responses.

Health

Speeding up the drug discovery process to help patients

13 September 2019

Press release

A research team found that the differences between people diagnosed with autism and the rest of the population are shrinking.

Health

Is it autism? The line is being increasingly blurred

21 August 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

Health

Stress and resilience: why sex and gender matter

14 August 2019

Press release

Gut infection can lead to a pathology resembling Parkinson’s disease in a mouse model lacking a gene linked to the human disease.

Health

Can gut infection trigger Parkinson’s disease?

17 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

Critical for the coordination of immune responses, CD4 T cells are important white blood cells (lymphocytes) that help control chronic infections like HIV.

Health

HIV: holes in the immune system left unrepaired despite drug therapy

15 July 2019

Press release

Using social media and watching TV might increase symptoms of depression in teenagers.

Society

Teen depression linked to use of social media and TV

15 July 2019

Press release

Health

Major breakthrough in the treatment of leukemia

8 July 2019

Article

Health

Signature of an ineffective immune response to cancer revealed

20 June 2019

Press release

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