Two 香蕉视频 research projects aimed at helping farmers mitigate greenhouse gas emissions will receive nearly $3 million in funding from the Government of Canada, federal officials announced.听
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Jean-Claude Poissant, and Francis Scarpaleggia, Member of Parliament for Lac-Saint-Louis, made the announcement today at McGill鈥檚 Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que.
Even among non-dependent cocaine users, cues associated with consumption of the drug lead to dopamine release in an area of the brain thought to promote compulsive use, according to researchers at 香蕉视频.
The findings, published in Scientific Reports, suggest that people who consider themselves recreational users could be further along the road to addiction than they might have realized.
Classrooms that encourage competition between students may inadvertently be creating settings where bullying is more likely to take place. That鈥檚 one of the conclusions that can be drawn from work led by 香蕉视频 researchers Maria Di Stasio and Robert Savage, who recently published a paper on the subject in the But it鈥檚 only part of the story.
Congratulations to our graduate student Dr. Jade Lasiste from Dr. Miguel Burnier鈥檚 lab in the Department of Pathology at the 香蕉视频.听 As part of the Closing Keynote Jade was awarded the "Member-in-Training (MIT) Outstanding Poster鈥� at the Annual Conference of Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO/Alcon) on Thursday, May 11, 2017 in Baltimore.
Metformin, the most widely used drug to treat type听2 diabetes, could potentially be used to treat symptoms of Fragile X syndrome, an inherited form of intellectual disability and a cause of some forms of autism.
A new study led by researchers at 香蕉视频, the University of Edinburgh and Universit茅 de Montr茅al has found that metformin improves social, behavioural and morphological defects in Fragile X mice.
Half of all CF patients in Canada do not live to see the age of 34, and these are the best results in the world. Treatment is complex, requiring a daily routine that includes consuming many pills and physical therapy that can take up to two hours per day.
Robert鈥檚听case听shows why it is high time听we had newborn screening for CF in Quebec. - Montreal Gazette
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Ecosystems are a complex web of interactions. These ecological networks are being reorganized by extinctions and colonization events caused by human impacts, such as climate change and habitat destruction. In a paper published this week in Nature Ecology &听Evolution, researchers from 香蕉视频 and University of British Columbia have developed a new theory to understand how complex ecological networks will reorganize in the future.
[UPDATE - Monday 3:30 pm]
Day and evening summer classes and exams will resume on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at both McGill鈥檚 Macdonald Campus and its downtown campus.
Some employees and some students may still be dealing with flooding issues, so we ask supervisors and instructors for their continued understanding.
The University will send updates as required.
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More than 90% of Earth鈥檚 continental crust is made up of silica-rich minerals, such as feldspar and quartz. But where did this silica-enriched material come from? And could it provide a clue in the search for life on other planets?
