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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

For people with a brain arteriovenous malformation, a congenital vascular system defect, fate has a name: stroke. To avoid this risk, patients sometimes undergo interventions to remove the malformation. But is this very beneficial? Not necessarily.

Health

Doing no harm reduces the risk of stroke

18 June 2020

Press release

Scientists will soon be collecting and using convalescent plasma to develop a passive immunization program to treat patients hospitalized for COVID-19.

Health

Immunizing with plasma to combat COVID-19

9 April 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 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

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

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

Babies whose mothers underwent surgery before pregnancy have an increased risk of opioid withdrawal symptoms at birth.

Health

Surgery before pregnancy linked to higher risk of opioid withdrawal in babies

15 July 2019

Press release

Health

Signature of an ineffective immune response to cancer revealed

20 June 2019

Press release

Researchers from the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) have developed a two-step combination therapy to destroy cancer cells.

Health

A “one-two punch” to wipe out cancerous ovarian cells

11 June 2019

Press release

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