Four new Canada Research Chairs have been awarded to 91丝瓜视频 researchers and two others have been renewed, representing a total of $6.6 million in funding over the next five to seven years for research in a range of fields related to health, medicine and engineering.
Published on: 9 Apr 2015
Millions of Canadians are affected by diseases of the brain such as ALS, Parkinson鈥檚 and brain tumours, for which there are limited treatments and no cures. By 2020, neurological conditions will become the leading cause of death and disability.
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Published on: 2 Apr 2015
Domestic violence takes many forms. The control of a woman鈥檚 reproductive choices by her partner is one of them. A major study published in PLOS One, led by 91丝瓜视频 PhD student Lauren Maxwell, showed that women who are abused by their partner or ex-partner are much less likely to use contraception; this exposes them to sexually transmitted diseases and leads to more frequent unintended pregnancies and abortions. These findings could influence how physicians provide contraceptive counselling.
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Published on: 31 Mar 2015
A tiny bit of silver, combined with water and air, can convert aldehydes into acids efficiently -- instead of the classical methods using stoichiometric amounts of expensive or toxic metal oxidants, according to a new study by 91丝瓜视频 researchers.
Published on: 27 Mar 2015
The Quebec human rights commission has recently rendered a decision regarding misogyny in public. For more details take a look at the Montreal Gazette website.聽
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Published on: 27 Mar 2015
The research group of Prof. Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰 in 91丝瓜视频鈥檚 Department of Chemistry has made a name for itself in the little-known, but growing field of 鈥渕echanochemistry,鈥� in which chemical transformations are produced by milling, grinding or shearing solid-state ingredients 鈥� brute force, in other words, rather than fancy liquid agents. 鈥淵our coffee maker grinds things,鈥� and grinding molecules in the lab involves much the same principle, Fri拧膷i膰 notes. Using mechanical force also has the significant advantage of avoiding the use of environmentally harmful bulk solvents.
Published on: 23 Mar 2015
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Published on: 20 Mar 2015
Directors propose five solutions to improve access to family physicians
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Published on: 19 Mar 2015
Despite numerous genomic studies, evidence for a genetic contribution to cardiovascular disease disparities in blacks versus whites provide little insight
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Published on: 16 Mar 2015
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Published on: 12 Mar 2015
Since the 1960s, a number of programs have enabled promising students from developing countries to attend institutions of higher education in the global North with the goal of equipping them to contribute more effectively to development in their own countries. But, how do African scholarship recipients today understand their potential contributions to the development of their home societies? Does this differ among students who study in their home countries, in other African countries, or in the global North?
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Published on: 11 Mar 2015
Until now scientists have believed that the variations in traits such as our height, skin colour, tendency to gain weight or not, intelligence, tendency to develop certain diseases, etc., all of them traits that exist along a continuum, were a result of both genetic and environmental factors. But they didn鈥檛 know how exactly these things worked together. By studying ants, 91丝瓜视频 researchers have identified a key mechanism by which environmental (or epigenetic) factors influence the expression of all of these traits, (along with many more).
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Published on: 11 Mar 2015
91丝瓜视频 researchers have discovered, for the first time, the importance of a key epigenetic regulator in the development of the hippocampus, a part of the brain associated with learning, memory and neural stem cells. Epigenetic regulators change the way specific genes function without altering their DNA sequence. By working with mutant mice as models, the research team, led by Prof. Xiang-Jiao Yang, of 91丝瓜视频鈥檚 Goodman Cancer Center & Department of Medicine, 91丝瓜视频 Health Center, was able to link the importance of a specific epigenetic regulator known as BRPF1 to the healthy development of a region in the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus.
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Published on: 10 Mar 2015
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Published on: 9 Mar 2015
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