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Noting the current lack of clinical biomarkers needed to diagnose Parkinson's, the researchers believe that knowing the disease’s unique signature could help clinical teams diagnose it early on, from a blood sample.

Health

Diagnosing Parkinson’s using a blood-based genetic signature

29 May 2025

Article

The study found that more than 80 per cent of users visiting a food bank for the first time were experiencing food insecurity.

Health

Food banks: short-term for some, permanent for others

12 March 2025

Article

Benoît Mâsse, Caroline Quach-Thanh and Andrés Finzi

Science

The pandemic: a pause in research or a springboard?

11 March 2025

Article

Université de Montréal medical professors Nicolas Chomont and Andrés Finzi

Health

Two UdeM researchers get close to $6M to try to defeat HIV

4 February 2025

Brief

With her funding from the MOHCCN, Dr. Marie-Pascale Pomey plans to create a Personalized Patient Learning Pathway (PPLP).

Health

A new platform to help people with rare cancers

17 December 2024

Article

Vincent Poitout

Community

Université de Montréal: Vincent Poitout, next Vice-Rector of Research

19 November 2024

Brief

These recent scientific advances mean that the “shock-and-kill” eradication strategy, often used in the fight against HIV, can be foreseen in a different way.

Health

An antidiabetic helps the immune system recognize reservoirs of HIV

11 September 2024

Press release

Fentanyl and new synthetic opioids are on track to soon become the most commonly detected substances in opioid poisoning deaths.

Health

Has Quebec entered a new era of drug-related deaths?

30 August 2024

Press release

Nicolas Chomont

Community

Nicolas Chomont receives an award of excellence in HIV research

6 May 2024

Brief

The scientific literature is clear: amyloid-beta oligomers accumulate in the brain one to two decades before Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed.

Health

Decoding sleep to reveal our state of health

15 March 2024

Article

Guided by an external magnetic field, miniature biocompatible robots, made of magnetizable iron oxide nanoparticles, can theoretically provide medical treatment in a very targeted manner.

Health

Treating liver cancer with microrobots

14 February 2024

Press release

Astrocytes, a type of non-neuronal brain cell

Health

Stress, depression and… astrocytes

10 October 2023

Article

Nicolas Chomont, professor at Université de Montréal and researcher at the CHUM Research Centre and Caroline Dufour, doctoral student at UdeM.

Health

HIV: two autopsies reveal where the virus hides

11 September 2023

Press release

Health

Biomarkers for the Progression of Type 2 Diabetes Identified

30 May 2023

Press release

Health

Infectious SARS-CoV-2 found in hospital air

19 April 2023

Press release

Pierre Gantner and Nicolas Chomont

Science

HIV reservoirs are established earlier than expected

28 February 2023

Press release

Manuela Santos, Roy Hajjar and Carole Richard.

Health

Colorectal Cancer Surgery: Adjusting the Gut Flora to Help Healing

16 March 2022

Press release

Health

After two years of pandemic, COVID-19 research is bearing fruit

15 March 2022

Article

Nathalie Grandvaux

Health

Nathalie Grandvaux promotes adherence to public health measures on social media

23 February 2022

Article

Health

An old molecule to fight SARS-CoV-2

10 February 2022

Press release

Health

Glaucoma: seeing the light at the end of the (nano)tunnel

7 February 2022

Press release

Health

Despite COVID-19, most young Canadian adults aren’t smoking or drinking more

18 January 2022

Press release

To survive in the human body, HIV burrows into immune cells that serve as a refuge and allow it to continue to multiply.

Health

HIV: a new therapeutic target identified

1 December 2021

Press release

Various studies show that physical activity can reduce depressive symptoms by acting on biological, psychological and social mechanisms.

Health

Get moving for good mental health!

18 October 2021

Article

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

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 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

Health

HIV: an antidiabetic drug to reduce chronic inflammation

18 March 2021

Press release

The research team also found the alterations are linked to the severity of COVID-19 disease, to its evolution over 30 days, and to death within 60 days.

Health

COVID-19: biomarkers linked to severe forms of the disease

4 March 2021

Press release

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