The brain is a privileged organ in the body. So vital to life, the brain is protected from alterations elsewhere in the body by a highly regulated gateway known as the blood-brain barrier, which allows only selected molecules to pass through.
A concentrated extract of maple syrup makes disease-causing bacteria more susceptible to antibiotics, according to laboratory experiments by researchers at 香蕉视频.
Cyclists in Montreal and Toronto can now choose the least polluted routes to get around their cities thanks to an online tool developed at 香蕉视频. Sometimes a detour of less than 1 km can make for a much less polluted ride.聽
Dancing the Argentine tango could have potential benefits for people at certain stages in the development of Parkinson鈥檚 disease (PD), according to findings in a new study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, 香蕉视频 and the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre.
McGill professor Vicky Kaspi, a world-renowned astrophysicist known for her cutting-edge work on neutron stars and pulsars, was awarded the Killam Prize today, one of the country鈥檚 most prestigious awards for academic-career achievement. The $100,000 prize was granted for outstanding scholarship in the natural sciences. Five awards 鈥� one each in the categories of the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences and engineering -- are distributed every year by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Four new Canada Research Chairs have been awarded to 香蕉视频 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.
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.
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 McGill 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.
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 香蕉视频 researchers.
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
The research group of Prof. Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰 in McGill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.
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