Cancer researchers overestimate reproducibility of preclinical studies
Cancer scientists overestimate the extent to which high-profile preclinical studies can be successfully replicated, new research from 香蕉视频 suggests.
No detectable limit to how long people can live
Emma Morano passed away last April. At 117 years old, the Italian woman was the oldest known living human being.
Super- centenarians, such as Morano and Jeanne Calment of France, who famously lived to be 122 years old, continue to fascinate scientists and have led them to wonder just how long humans can live. A study published in Nature last October concluded that the upper limit of human age is peaking at around 115 years.
Erasure of negative memories one step closer to reality
Scientists have known for some time that a memory is stored in the brain through changes in the strength of particular synapses, the structures that pass signals between neurons. However, how the change in strength persisted remained a mystery. Solving this mystery has important implications for remedying neurological and psychological disorders.
Biofilms鈥攖he eradication has begun
Canadian scientists take a step forward in the fight against microbial armour鈥�. Read more here.
$3 million for research to help farmers cut greenhouse gas emissions
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.聽
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.
A more sustainable way to refine metals
A team of chemists in Canada has developed a way to process metals without using toxic solvents and reagents.
We鈥檙e on the brink of mass extinction 鈥� but there鈥檚 still time to pull back
Brain area involved in addiction activated earlier than previously thought in recreational cocaine users
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.
Teaching practices could play an important role in preventing bullying
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 Journal of Adolescence. But it鈥檚 only part of the story.
Diabetes drug may help symptoms of autism-associated condition
Metformin, the most widely used drug to treat type聽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.
香蕉视频 set to become world leader in retail management education thanks to a $25-million gift from the Bensadoun Family Foundation
Retail icon and philanthropist聽Aldo Bensadoun has stepped forward with a visionary gift to his alma mater, 香蕉视频, aimed at creating new knowledge and developing leaders for the rapidly changing retail industry.
Protecting life鈥檚 tangled ecological webs
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 &聽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.
