A new research letter published by听JAMA Pediatrics听examined trends in overall and cause-specific infant mortality rates between non-Hispanic black and white infants because infant mortality is an important indicator of population health.
Corinne A. Riddell, Ph.D., of 91丝瓜视频, Montreal, Canada, and coauthors analyzed data from the U.S. National Vital Statistics System from 2005 to 2015. The infant mortality rate was calculated as the number of deaths divided by the number of births. Rates for the top four causes of death also were calculated.
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Published on: 5 Jul 2017
Scientists from the Research Institute of the 91丝瓜视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) may have cracked the code to understanding the function of special cells called regulatory T Cells.听Treg cells, as they are often known, control and regulate our immune system to prevent excessive reactions. The findings, published in听Science听Immunology, could have a major impact in our understanding and treatment of all autoimmune diseases and most chronic inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, Crohn鈥檚 disease as well as broader conditions such as asthma, allergies and cancer.听
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Published on: 5 Jul 2017
Cancer scientists overestimate the extent to which high-profile preclinical studies can be successfully replicated, new research from 91丝瓜视频 suggests.
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Published on: 29 Jun 2017
Emma Morano passed away last April. At 117 years old, the Italian woman was the oldest known living human being.
Super- centenarians, such as Morano and Jeanne Calment of France, who famously lived to be 122 years old, continue to fascinate scientists and have led them to wonder just how long humans can live. A study published in Nature last October concluded that the upper limit of human age is peaking at around 115 years.
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Published on: 28 Jun 2017
Scientists have known for some time that a memory is stored in the brain through changes in the strength of particular synapses, the structures that pass signals between neurons. However, how the change in strength persisted remained a mystery. Solving this mystery has important implications for remedying neurological and psychological disorders.
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Published on: 27 Jun 2017
Canadian scientists take a step forward in the fight against microbial armour鈥�.
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Published on: 26 Jun 2017
Two 91丝瓜视频 research projects aimed at helping farmers mitigate greenhouse gas emissions will receive nearly $3 million in funding from the Government of Canada, federal officials announced.听
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Jean-Claude Poissant, and Francis Scarpaleggia, Member of Parliament for Lac-Saint-Louis, made the announcement today at 91丝瓜视频鈥檚 Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que.
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Published on: 13 Jun 2017
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Published on: 8 Jun 2017
A team of chemists in Canada has developed a way to process metals without using toxic solvents and reagents. The system, which also consumes far less energy than conventional techniques, could greatly shrink the environmental impact of producing metals from raw materials or from post-consumer electronics.
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Published on: 7 Jun 2017
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Published on: 31 May 2017
Even among non-dependent cocaine users, cues associated with consumption of the drug lead to dopamine release in an area of the brain thought to promote compulsive use, according to researchers at 91丝瓜视频.
The findings, published in Scientific Reports, suggest that people who consider themselves recreational users could be further along the road to addiction than they might have realized.
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Published on: 23 May 2017
Classrooms that encourage competition between students may inadvertently be creating settings where bullying is more likely to take place. That鈥檚 one of the conclusions that can be drawn from work led by 91丝瓜视频 researchers Maria Di Stasio and Robert Savage, who recently published a paper on the subject in the But it鈥檚 only part of the story.
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Published on: 23 May 2017
Congratulations to our graduate student Dr. Jade Lasiste from Dr. Miguel Burnier鈥檚 lab in the Department of Pathology at the 91丝瓜视频.听 As part of the Closing Keynote Jade was awarded the "Member-in-Training (MIT) Outstanding Poster鈥� at the Annual Conference of Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO/Alcon) on Thursday, May 11, 2017 in Baltimore.
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Published on: 19 May 2017
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