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.
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Published on: 24 Jan 2019
McGill and MUHC research teams part of an international effort to uncover how chronic inflammation causes cancer
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Published on: 23 Jan 2019
Imagine a waterproof computer. It鈥檚 not going to happen tomorrow, but it may no longer be a pipedream since a McGill-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.
Published on: 22 Jan 2019
A landmark $15-million gift from McGill 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 McGill鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering, deepening their support for outstanding PhD students who pursue innovative research at McGill.
Their gift also aims to strengthen Montreal as an engineering and technology hub by attracting more top talent to McGill.
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Published on: 16 Jan 2019
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.
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Published on: 10 Jan 2019
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.
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Published on: 9 Jan 2019
香蕉视频 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.
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Published on: 9 Jan 2019
A ground-breaking new study led by researchers from the Lady Davis Institute (LDI) at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) has succeeded in compiling an atlas of genetic factors associated with estimated bone mineral density (BMD), one of the most clinically relevant factors in diagnosing osteoporosis. The paper, published in Nature Genetics, identifies 518 genome-wide loci, of which 301 are newly discovered, that explain 20% of the genetic variance associated with osteoporosis.
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Published on: 3 Jan 2019
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Published on: 3 Jan 2019
One year ago, the Bulletin AMQ of the Association Math茅matique du Qu茅bec published the article Le polygone du cercle d鈥橢uler (The Polygon of Euler鈥檚 Circle). Written by third-year student Juan Fern谩ndez Gonz谩lez, it defines and explores a convex polygon that can be associated to any triangle.
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Published on: 20 Dec 2018
A new Canadian study, led by a team at the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC), is shedding light on anaphylaxis due to an unknown trigger (AUT)鈥攁n unpredictable and potentially fatal allergic reaction, about which surprisingly little is known.
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Published on: 20 Dec 2018
More than two-thirds of Canada鈥檚 biodiversity is made up of species that occur within the country鈥檚 borders only at the very northern edge of their range. Biologists have long debated how much effort should be dedicated to conserving these 鈥渆dge populations.鈥� One argument in their favour is that they may be especially well suited to lead northward range shifts for their species as the climate warms.
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Published on: 17 Dec 2018
Monitoring a wound is critical, especially in diabetic patients, whose lack of sensation due to nerve damage can lead to infection of a lesion and, ultimately, amputation. New research from the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (MUHC) and 香蕉视频 shows that the use of a new app, called Swift Skin and Wound鈩�, which accurately measures and charts the progression of skin wounds, could potentially have a significant impact on clinical management and patient outcomes.
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Published on: 17 Dec 2018
Professor is the recipient of the prestigious for his exceptional contributions to Green Chemistry research in Canada. He is the third McGill professor to win the Steacie Prize, and the first ever McGill professor to win it for chemistry. The two previous winners from McGill are Vicky Kaspi, Physics and Astronomy (2006) and Phil Gold, Medicine (1973).
Published on: 14 Dec 2018
Ghrelin promotes conditioning to food-related odours
The holiday season is a hard one for anyone watching their weight. The sights and smells of food are hard to resist. One factor in this hunger response is a hormone found in the stomach that makes us more vulnerable to tasty food smells, encouraging overeating and obesity. New research on the hormone ghrelin was published on Dec. 4, 2018, led by Dr. Alain Dagher鈥檚 lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of 香蕉视频.
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Published on: 12 Dec 2018
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