What do you get when you put together several tons of steel plates, hundreds of mice, a few evolutionary and molecular biologists and a tiny Nebraska town near the South Dakota border?
Would you believe one of the most complete pictures ever of vertebrate evolution?
Technique involves use of non-invasive digital infrared imaging
Tissues and organs in the human body are shaped through forces generated by cells, that push and pull, to 鈥渟culpt鈥� biological structures. Thanks to a new tool developed at 91丝瓜视频, scientists will now be able to watch, and map these forces.
Mila 鈥� Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence officially inaugurated its new premises at the O Mile-Ex complex this week, in the presence of the Minister of Economy and Innovation for the government of Quebec, Pierre Fitzgibbon, and more than 200 partners and players in the Quebec artificial intelligence ecosystem.
91丝瓜视频 announced today a new approach to student mental health and well-being that includes the Rossy Student Wellness Hub. The ambitious $14-million initiative reimagines the way health services are provided, with a newly integrated, campus-wide approach to physical and mental health and wellness, and a greater emphasis on awareness, prevention and earlier intervention. 91丝瓜视频鈥檚 Faculties will also play a role in developing on-site wellness and mental health programs specific to the needs of their students.
The Lancet commission on Obesity published a report today on the joint pandemics of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change. In the report, the commissioners point to the fact that malnutrition in all its forms, including undernutrition and obesity, is by far the biggest cause of ill-health and premature death globally. Excess body weight affects 2 billion people worldwide, 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiency, and both are expected to be made significantly worse by climate change.
A new study published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, reveals a causal link between the neurotransmitter dopamine and the reward responses to music. The study was conducted by an international team including researchers from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of 91丝瓜视频, the University of Barcelona, and the Hospital de Sant Pau of Barcelona.
In the wake of the announcement in China last November of the first 鈥楥RISPR babies鈥�, Prof. Bartha Knoppers and researcher Erika Kleiderman from 91丝瓜视频鈥檚 Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) have published a commentary article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on the use of CRISPR gene-editing techniques.
A patient develops a rare condition and needs answers, so their clinician searches frantically to find patients with similar, rare, symptoms and similar possible causes. To understand the mechanisms of one debilitating disease, a medical researcher tries to separate the 鈥渟ignal鈥� of causes of that disease, in particular, from the 鈥渘oise鈥� of natural biological variation of human lives and conditions.
91丝瓜视频 and MUHC research teams part of an international effort to uncover how chronic inflammation causes cancer
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Imagine a waterproof computer. It鈥檚 not going to happen tomorrow, but it may no longer be a pipedream since a 91丝瓜视频-led international research team has shown for the first time that it is possible to form strong, stable attractions between some of the heavier elements in the periodic table.
A landmark $15-million gift from 91丝瓜视频 alumnus Les Vadasz, a founding member of Intel Corporation, and his wife Judy Vadasz, will enhance the prestigious doctoral fellowship program that bears their name in 91丝瓜视频鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering, deepening their support for outstanding PhD students who pursue innovative research at 91丝瓜视频.
Their gift also aims to strengthen Montreal as an engineering and technology hub by attracting more top talent to 91丝瓜视频.
Scientists increasingly believe that one of the driving forces in chronic pain鈥攖he number one health problem in both prevalence and burden鈥攁ppears to be the memory of earlier pain. Research published today in Current Biology suggests that there may be variations, based on sex, in the way that pain is remembered in both mice and humans.
A Canadian-led team of scientists has found the second repeating fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded. FRBs are short bursts of radio waves coming from far outside our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists believe FRBs emanate from powerful astrophysical phenomena billions of light years away.
91丝瓜视频 has helped develop a global resource that includes data on thousands of inherited variants in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. The BRCA Exchange was created through the BRCA Challenge, a long-term demonstration project initiated by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) to enhance sharing of BRCA1/BRCA2 data.
