Research

Self-testing app to be implemented in high HIV burden cities worldwide MUHC Montreal, September 25, 2017 – It is estimated that 30-40 per...

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom For the first time, researchers have been able to see changes in the neural structures in specific areas...

By Christina Kozakiewicz, Ingram School of Nursing September is Prostate Cancer Awareness month. Over the course of this 30-day period, over 1,700 Canadian...

Discovery points to possible target for cancer drugs By Cynthia Lee, McGill Newsroom McGill University researchers have discovered a mechanism through which mitochondria,...

Source: Rossy Cancer Network  What if certain cancer patients could be spared invasive and uncomfortable biopsies? What if they could also be spared...

By Sophia Blankenhorn, Medicine Focus How did an Alzheimer’s researcher come to earn an international award for best Down syndrome thesis? Florencia Iulita,...

Researchers at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine have identified an unexpected function of a family of proteins referred to as “molecular chaperones” that...

The severity of a parasite’s virulence depends on what time infection occurs Does the time of day matter when our body is infected...

Some trials may overestimate effects, leading to bad treatment decisions, bioethicists warn Source: McGill Newsroom In a Viewpoint article published online this week...

Quebec researchers link protein distribution to greater mass and muscle strength in the elderly By Julie Robert, MUHC Loss of muscle is an...

A mutation pattern or “signature” linked to defects in two genes points to other ways an important DNA repair mechanism can be shut...

The Neuro to launch open research publishing platform with F1000 By Shawn Hayward, The Neuro A new partnership between The Neuro and F1000...