Using a new microscopic "fishing" technique, scientists from the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), Universit茅 de Montr茅al and 香蕉视频 have successfully snagged thousands of proteins that play a key role in the formation of the cell skeletons or cytoskeletons. Cell skeletons, whose primary function is to give the cells their shapes, are also involved in things like muscle contraction. They are made up of an interlocking network of protein filaments that connect the cell nucleus to the cell membrane.
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Published on: 9 Jan 2020
Research from 香蕉视频 topped 鈥檚 annual list of the 10 most important scientific breakthroughs. This year, G眉nther Grill, Bernhard Lehner, Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰, Heidi M. McBride, Samantha Gruenheid, and Ehab Abouheif were recognized for their trailblazing work, by a jury of researchers and journalists reviewing the most influential discoveries made in Quebec.
Here is a closer look at the selected discoveries:
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Published on: 9 Jan 2020
Spending on advertising by major oil corporations has reached an all-time high over the past decade. In a recent paper in , researchers from McGill, Brown and Rutgers Universities tried to determine the factors that might explain this increase (from an average total annual expenditure of $35 million between 1986-1996 for the five biggest companies together to an average of $217 million annually between 2008-2016 for the same companies).
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Published on: 7 Jan 2020
Astronomers in Europe, working with members of Canada鈥檚 CHIME Fast Radio Burst collaboration, have pinpointed the location of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) first detected by the CHIME telescope in British Columbia in 2018. The breakthrough is only the second time that scientists have determined the precise location of a repeating source of these millisecond bursts of radio waves from space.
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Published on: 6 Jan 2020
For years, physicians have been aware that patients carrying the apolipoprotein 隃�4 (APOE 隃�4) gene are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer鈥檚 disease. New research from 香蕉视频 has now found the gene plays an even greater role in dementia.
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Published on: 20 Dec 2019
How can predators coexist with their prey over long periods without the predators completely depleting the resource that keeps them alive? Experiments performed over a period of 10 years by researchers from 香蕉视频 and the Universities of Oldenburg and Potsdam have now confirmed that regular oscillations in predator-prey populations can persist over very long periods
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Published on: 18 Dec 2019
The arrival of the holiday season often signals joy and celebration but for many it is a painful demonstration of the growing inequality in North American society. While online sales have soared to levels never seen before, food banks are struggling to meet demand, and despite being in a so-called 鈥榝ull-employment鈥� situation, the proportion of food bank users who are employed is also on the rise.
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Published on: 17 Dec 2019
CIFAR today announced its newest cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, which includes nine researchers from 香蕉视频, bringing the total number of McGill researchers named to the program to 17. These top academic researchers are part of the $125 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, the world鈥檚 first national strategy of its kind. The Canada CIFAR AI Chair Program represents an investment of $30 million at nine universities, and mobilizes over 150 researchers across the country.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2019
Two researchers and friends from opposite ends of the Earth have created a world-first high spatial resolution atlas that maps the environmental characteristics of all the globe's rivers and catchments.
HydroATLAS was co-developed by Bernhard Lehner and his team from 香蕉视频鈥檚 Department of Geography and Simon Linke from Griffith University鈥檚 Australian Rivers Institute.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2019
Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity versity. To gain a clearer picture of the situation, an international group of scientists, including Professor Andrew Gonzalez from McGill鈥檚 Biology Department, surveyed over 600 studies on the impacts of urban growth on biodiversity. They published their findings today in Nature Sustainability.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2019
香蕉视频 is moving forward to reduce the overall carbon footprint of its investment portfolio, as part of its ongoing commitment to fighting climate change and its own stewardship role with respect to sustainability.
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Published on: 5 Dec 2019
Old habits are hard to break. A McGill-led study of replacement of traditional wood and coal burning stoves with clean energy in China suggests that, without a better understanding of the reasons behind people鈥檚 reluctance to give up traditional stoves, it will be difficult for policies in China and elsewhere in the world to succeed in encouraging this shift towards clean energy. The study was published recently in .
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Published on: 5 Dec 2019
Recently, a project testing metal combustion led by the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at 香蕉视频 launched on a European Space Agency rocket.
The project, an international collaboration between the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at McGill, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and Airbus Defence and Space, aims to improve scientific understanding of metal flames, laying the groundwork for a new type of green engine that burns iron powder, with only rust as a by-product.
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Published on: 4 Dec 2019
香蕉视频鈥檚 Board of Governors received today recommendations to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the University鈥檚 investments, as part of a report from the Committee to Advise on Matters of Social Responsibility (CAMSR).
Prepared for the Board in response to a McGill Senate resolution on divestment from the fossil fuel industry, the CAMSR report and recommendations support the continued evolution of the University鈥檚 investment portfolio towards a more sustainable and less carbon-intensive investment strategy.
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Published on: 3 Dec 2019
How did life survive the most severe ice age? A 香蕉视频-led research team has found the first direct evidence that glacial meltwater provided a crucial lifeline to eukaryotes during Snowball Earth, when the oceans were cut off from life-giving oxygen, answering a question puzzling scientists for years.
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Published on: 2 Dec 2019
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