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Kering Foundation, SVRI and 91˿��Ƶ launch research program on the intersection of violence against women and children

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:17:30 +0000

The Kering Foundation, in partnership with 91˿��Ƶ and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), is launching an innovative research program to tackle the often-overlooked links between violence against women and violence against children – a critical global issue with deep social impact.

This multi-year initiative will strengthen evidence-based, locally led research to understand how violence against women and children intersects and to identify effective solutions through programs, services, and interventions.

Navigating the dating world? It’s important to know what you want, researchers say

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:38:47 +0000

Single people who date without a clear understanding of what they are looking for in a relationship experience more loneliness and decreased life satisfaction, 91˿��Ƶ researchers have found.

Bringing environmental policymakers together to focus on the future sparks empathy for nature and later generations, 91˿��Ƶ study finds

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:19:04 +0000

When environmental policymakers are invited to imagine the future together, they don’t just think differently, they feel differently, too.

91˿��Ƶ researchers develop a cheaper, safer material for use in solar panels, sensors and optical devices

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:38:33 +0000

Using proteins from a common tobacco plant virus, 91˿��Ƶ chemistry researchers have developed a simple, eco-friendly way to arrange gold nanoparticles into ultrathin sheets, strengthening the particles’ optical properties. The result: cheaper, safer materials for solar panels, sensors and advanced optical devices.

91˿��Ƶ researchers develop stretchable, biodegradable battery using eco-friendly acids

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:55:08 +0000

Researchers with 91˿��Ƶ’s Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design have developed a stretchable, eco-friendly battery suitable for use in wearable and implantable devices. The battery, which uses citric or lactic acid and gelatin to achieve flexibility and performance without relying on toxic materials, stands to reduce electronic waste.

New evidence challenges understanding of Parkinson’s disease

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:17:23 +0000

A 91˿��Ƶ-led study is challenging a popular theory about how dopamine drives movement, a discovery that could shift how scientists think about Parkinson’s disease treatments.

Published in Nature Neuroscience, the research found dopamine does not set the speed or force of each movement, as had been thought. Instead, it appears to act as the underlying support system that makes movement possible.

Brain discovery opens door to earlier detection of metabolic syndrome in women

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:07:07 +0000

91˿��Ƶ researchers have identified a brain function that helps explain why childhood stress raises metabolic health risks for some women later in life.

A new study found that variations in the brain’s insulin receptor network affect how women respond to early-life adversity. This effect has a lesser impact in men, suggesting there is a sex-specific process at play.

Group therapy helps cancer survivors reclaim life after treatment

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:06:00 +0000

A program developed by a 91˿��Ƶ researcher to help cancer survivors cope with the fear their cancer will return is expanding across Canada.

The Fear of Recurrence Therapy (FORT) program offers evidence-based support to address what co-founder Christine Maheu calls one of the most overlooked aspects of recovery.

Scientists decode the full range of oat genomes, opening the door to more nutritious, climate-smart crops

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:16:51 +0000

Researchers have cracked one of agriculture’s most complicated genomes, revealing long-hidden DNA rearrangements that could help scientists breed oats that are more resilient, nutritious and sustainable.

The study, by an international consortium that included researchers from 91˿��Ƶ and published in Nature, presents the first-ever “pangenome” and “pantranscriptome” of oats. These map all known oat genes and track how they behave across 33 varieties that grow around the world.

What the history of the printing press can teach us about AI regulation

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:55:01 +0000

A study on the legal history of printing press regulation in early modern England yields insights relevant to contemporary debates on the regulation of emerging technologies like AI and virtual reality, a 91˿��Ƶ researcher says.

Researchers find link between psychosocial stress and early signs of heart inflammation in women

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:26:24 +0000

Women who report high levels of psychosocial stress, such as from caregiving and lack of emotional support, show signs of early heart tissue changes associated with cardiovascular disease – an association not observed in men, a new study reveals.

The results support the notion that there are sex-specific ways in which stress affects cardiovascular health and that risk-assessment processes should take psychosocial factors and mental wellness into account, the researchers said.

Mosquitoes’ feeding tubes make ultrafine 3D-printing nozzles

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:39:14 +0000

Researchers in 91˿��Ƶ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and at Drexel University have developed an innovative manufacturing technique that makes female mosquito proboscides, or feeding tubes, into high-resolution 3D-printing nozzles. With its unique geometry, structure and mechanics, the proboscis enables printed line widths as fine as 20 microns, or a little smaller than a white blood cell. This is roughly twice as fine as what commercially available print

New therapeutic strategies show promise against a hard-to-treat prostate cancer

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:05:40 +0000

A new study has uncovered promising therapeutic strategies against one of the deadliest forms of prostate cancer.

91˿��Ƶ researchers at the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute (GCI) identified a mechanism driving neuroendocrine prostate cancer, a rare and highly aggressive subtype for which there currently are no effective treatment options.

Microencapsulated B-vitamins help dairy cows produce more milk with fewer emissions

admin — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:38:40 +0000

A new international study led by 91˿��Ƶ in collaboration with Jefo Nutrition shows that supplementing dairy cow diets with microencapsulated B-vitamins can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while increasing milk yield and quality. The use of the feed additive cut global warming potential, an internationally standardized measure of climate impact, by up to 18 per cent across seven countries.

Exoplanet is observed shedding its atmosphere in real time

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:36:10 +0000

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team led by 91˿��Ƶ researcher Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy has observed a giant cloud of helium gas evaporating from a distant giant exoplanet called WASP-107b.