Researchers at 香蕉视频 have discovered a new, more environmentally friendly way to make ketones, an important chemical ingredient in pharmaceuticals.听 While ketones are found in a wide range of useful chemicals, they are commonly prepared through energy-intensive, multi-step technologies that create significant chemical waste.听 In an article published online last month in Nature Chemistry, the McGill scientists demonstrate how carbon monoxide, a widely available by-product of combustion, can instead be used to form high-energy chemicals that react directly with benzene to
Published on: 26 Jan 2018
More than 400,000 Canadians aged 65 and over live with diagnosed dementia, including Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, which accounts for approximately 70 percent of cases. The cause of this degenerative brain disease is largely unknown and no effective treatment exists. The disease has a devastating effect on individuals and their families.
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Published on: 23 Jan 2018
Our genome contains all the information necessary to form a complete human being. This information, encoded in our DNA, stretches over one to two metres long but still manages to squeeze into a cell about 100听times smaller than a green pea. To do so, the genome has to be compacted.
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Published on: 23 Jan 2018
The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn鈥檛 where astrophysicists expected it to be 鈥� a discovery that challenges scientists鈥� understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.
Unlike our familiar planet Jupiter, so-called hot Jupiters circle astonishingly close to their host star -- so close that it typically takes fewer than three days to complete an orbit.听 And one hemisphere of these planets always faces its host star, while the other faces permanently out into the dark.
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Published on: 22 Jan 2018
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New labs and equipment through the CFI鈥檚 Innovation Fund will help six transformative McGill research projects to collaborate, innovate and train the next generation of scientists for the jobs of tomorrow.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2018
Researchers demonstrate for the first time the potential of existing technology to directly detect and characterize life on Mars and other planets. The study, published in听, used miniaturized scientific instruments and听 new听microbiology听techniques to identify and examine microorganisms in the Canadian high Arctic 鈥� one of the closest analogs to Mars on Earth.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2018
The afterglow from the distant neutron-star merger has continued to brighten 鈥� much to the surprise of astrophysicists studying the aftermath of the massive collision that took place about 138 million light years away and sent gravitational听waves rippling through the universe.
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Published on: 18 Jan 2018
An over-reliance on self-report screening questionnaires, wherein patients essentially define their own condition, in place of diagnostic interviews conducted by a health care professional, has resulted in over-estimation of the prevalence of people with depression in many research studies 鈥� often by a factor of two to three times. This is according to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The study found that over 75% of recent research on depression prevalence has been based exclusively on patient completed questionnaires.
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Published on: 18 Jan 2018
Frequently encountered in the elderly, Alzheimer鈥檚 is considered a neurodegenerative disease, which means that it is accompanied by a significant, progressive loss of neurons and their nerve endings, or synapses. A joint French and Canadian study published in Scientific Reports now challenges this view.
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Published on: 17 Jan 2018
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) often have a hard time switching gears from one task to another. But being bilingual may actually make it a bit easier for them to do so, according to a new study which was recently published in Child Development.
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Published on: 16 Jan 2018
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Published on: 11 Jan 2018
A study by a group of researchers including those from The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of 香蕉视频 has tested the theory that brain degeneration in Parkinson鈥檚 disease (PD) originates in subcortical regions and spreads along neural networks to the cerebral cortex. By analyzing data on PD patients and healthy controls collected over one year, the researchers found that brain regions closely connected to subcortical regions showed the most degeneration over the one-year period in PD patients, and that this happens earlier than previously thought.
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Published on: 11 Jan 2018
New detections of radio waves from a repeating fast radio burst have revealed an astonishingly potent magnetic field in the source鈥檚 environment, indicating that it is situated near a massive black hole or within a nebula of unprecedented power.
The findings by an international team of astronomers, including Victoria Kaspi and Shriharsh Tendulkar of 香蕉视频, appear in the January 11 edition of Nature and are highlighted on the cover of the journal.
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Published on: 10 Jan 2018
Qu茅bec Science magazine has selected its for 2017, including three involving McGill researchers. The annual list has highlighted top scientific research from across Quebec for the past 25 years, and McGill has been cited more than any other institution during that quarter-century.
Here are the selected discoveries involving McGill scientists for the past year:
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Published on: 4 Jan 2018
A regimen of a novel bone anabolic medication (which builds bone mass) followed by an antiresorptive agent (which maintains bone mass) has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of fracture among post-menopausal women with severe osteoporosis, according to results of a clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Published on: 21 Dec 2017
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