Research
Study provides new understanding of drug effects
Findings could yield potential new treatment to hypertension As our understanding of their targets becomes more sophisticated over the last few years, developing...
March 26, 2015
DNA test slashes wait times for tuberculosis diagnosis in Iqaluit
Study results prompt Government of Nunavut to fund TB test's continued use Tuberculosis continues to be a significant public health concern in Canada's...
March 26, 2015
Can our bones protect us against diabetes and obesity?
IRCM researchers discover a new function of the bone associated with energy and glucose metabolism A team of researchers at the IRCM led...
March 19, 2015
Finding a new test for children with concussions
Brain activation study helps to diagnose concussions in children and youths MONTREAL-Researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at...
March 19, 2015
Reducing cancer-related fatigue one step at a time
Low-intensity exercise program builds scarce resources of people with cancer “Not too little and not too much” physical activity shows promise in reducing...
March 19, 2015
Genetics: no evidence of role in racial mortality gap
Despite numerous genomic studies, evidence for a genetic contribution to cardiovascular disease disparities in blacks versus whites provide little insight There is still...
March 19, 2015
Confident? Your voice gives you away in milliseconds
New research by Xiaoming Jiang and Marc Pell from the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, published in the most recent issue of the...
March 11, 2015
Brain development controlled by epigenetic factor
Research into hippocampus has implications for learning and memory McGill researchers have discovered, for the first time, the importance of a key epigenetic...
March 11, 2015
Honey, I shrunk the ants: how environment controls size
Ground breaking epigenetics research has implications for everything from cancer to farming Until now scientists have believed that the variations in traits such...
March 11, 2015
$41 million to unlock the mysteries of aging
Two Quebec universities play a key role in pan-Canadian study It’s hard to predict what the next 20 years have in store for...
March 9, 2015
Most information in drug development is lost
“Stalled drugs” are drugs that fail to make it to the market either because they prove to be ineffective or unsafe or both....
March 9, 2015
Breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells metastasize
Montreal Neurological Institute scientists discover a new mechanism driving spread of cancer A protein commonly found in human cells could be an important...
February 26, 2015