Research
Study sheds light on how neurotransmitter receptors transport calcium, a process linked with origins of neurological disease
McGill and Vanderbilt University researchers describe for the first time the mechanism of calcium transport in ionotropic glutamate receptors that helps drive the...
March 12, 2024
Fighting the flu: The surprising power of a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis
As Canada’s flu season collides with record strep A cases and ongoing COVID-19 concerns, a new study is shedding light on our understanding...
March 12, 2024
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
