Brains on a dish: Revolutionizing Parkinson’s Disease research with brain organoids

Standardizing and streamlining the process to create brain organoids in labs could accelerate breakthroughs in Parkinson's Disease research Parkinson’s Disease (PD) affects nearly...
March 12, 2024

Health care inequities behind shorter life spans for Inuit from Nunavik with lung cancer 

A new study shows that people living in the Inuit region of Nunavik in northern Quebec die earlier after a diagnosis of lung...
March 12, 2024

‘A Scientist’s Scientist’: Rose M. Johnstone

Iconic McGill professor’s groundbreaking discovery impacts therapeutic development to this day   “In science, predicting the significance and outcome of really new work...
March 9, 2024

First Research Platforms Fest put spotlight on McGill’s world-class Core Platforms

On January 17, 2024, the Research Office of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences along with the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute...
February 22, 2024

Viagra to treat oxygen-deprived newborns

Treatments to help babies who run out of oxygen during pregnancy or at birth (neonatal encephalopathy) are limited. Therapeutic hypothermia is the only...
February 21, 2024

Repressing a faulty gene 

A new trial at The Neuro hopes to use mRNA to halt the devastating progression of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease  Prion diseases first came to...
February 21, 2024

Surprising new evidence on happiness and wealth

Survey of people living in small, rural communities around the world suggests income not key to happiness Global polls typically show that people...
February 20, 2024

Making AI a partner in neuroscientific discovery

New paper argues that Large Language Models can reveal breakthroughs humans alone cannot The past year has seen major advances in Large Language...
February 20, 2024

National Canadian Consortium of Clinical Trial Training (CANTRAIN) takes off successfully 

Eighty-four graduate students from across Canada will share over $2 million in studentship and fellowship salary awards from four Clinical Trials Training Platforms...
February 20, 2024

COVID-19 rapid tests: how good are they? 

A new study indicates that COVID-19 self-tests effectively identify non-infected individuals as well people with high viral loads and high infectiousness. The COVID-19...
February 20, 2024

A new era in wound care 

Programmable hydrogels could also be used for sustained drug release  Hydrogels are engineered materials, which absorb and retain water and are currently used...
February 20, 2024

McGill study finds that some Canadians may still be at risk of Genetic Discrimination despite new federal law

New study from the Centre of Genomics and Policy examines the impact of the 2017 Genetic Non-Discrimination Act on life insurance practices and...
February 8, 2024