Research
AI and Alzheimer’s disease
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJibd9262VQ Source: Douglas Mental Health University Institute How can artificial intelligence help detect the early decline associated with Alzheimer's disease earlier? Nikhil...
November 7, 2019
New direction for treatment of aggressive type of breast cancer
Researchers identify path to improve HER2+ breast cancer susceptibility to approved therapies Approximately 15 to 20% of breast cancers are caused by changes...
November 1, 2019
How much do obesity and addictions overlap?
Food can trigger overconsumption similar to alcohol and drugs, but it is not the whole story Source: Shawn Hayward, The Neuro A large...
October 31, 2019
Tonight’s homework is getting enough sleep
Reut Gruber knows there are young people out there who just aren’t getting enough sleep. By Philip Fine, McGill News An associate professor of...
October 29, 2019
Open software for neuroscience
Brainstorm advances fundamental and preclinical electrophysiology research Source: Sylvain Baillet, The Neuro A new open science software app developed by my colleagues and I...
October 25, 2019
Transforming DNA repair errors into assets
CiRA scientists, with the help of McGill colleagues, create a new bioinformatics tool, MHcut, to generate gene mutations with high precision to study...
October 25, 2019
Researchers identify improved avenues to train plastic surgeons in microsurgery
Adoption of methods that could reduce costs and spare animal models Microsurgery is an intricate and challenging surgical technique that involves using miniature...
October 25, 2019
The McGill Research Centre for Cannabis holds inaugural Science and Research Day
The new McGill Research Centre for Cannabis held its inaugural Science and Research Day on Thursday, October 17, 2019, at the McGill University...
October 24, 2019
McGill and MUHC team up with LSU Health New Orleans to advance Usher Syndrome antisense therapy research
Researchers collaborate to treat vision loss linked to Usher thanks to a 1.74 million USD grant from the National Institutes of Health ...
October 24, 2019
Opinion: scientists need to demand better antibody validation
My lab has developed a protocol to easily assess the specificity of antibodies—and hopefully stem some of the reproducibility crisis Source: The Neuro...
October 22, 2019
Donors make a difference
Future funds will let scientists study recurrent glioblastoma and cancer genomics at the single cell level Source: Victor Swoboda, The Neuro Donors do make...
October 21, 2019
Improving research with more effective antibodies
Scientists demonstrate flaws in protein detection tools, and outline a solution Source: McGill Newsroom A new study points to the need for better...
October 16, 2019