/newsroom/taxonomy/term/12767/all en /newsroom/channels/news/covid-infections-animals-key-ongoing-trajectory-pandemic-350373 <p><!-- x-tinymce/html --></p> Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:49:20 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 307325 at /newsroom /newsroom/jesse-shapiro Tue, 21 Dec 2021 21:59:44 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 283747 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/freshwater-ecosystems-risk-due-glyphosate-use-333104 <p><em>One of the few species that was found to be resistant to severe glyphosate contamination was Scapholeberis mucronata, a freshwater zooplankter commonly found in Québec and elsewhere in North America. CREDIT: Marie-Pier Hébert</em></p> Fri, 03 Sep 2021 21:22:00 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 274167 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/biodiversity-its-own-catalyst-point-328209 <p>For decades, scientists have wrestled with rival theories to explain how interactions between species, like competition, influence biodiversity. Tracking microbial life across the planet, researchers from �㽶��Ƶ show that biodiversity does in fact foster further diversity in microbiomes that are initially less diverse. However, diversity rates plateau with increased competition for survival and space in more diverse microbiomes.</p> Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:09:56 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 256584 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-partnership-unravel-genetic-sequence-sars-cov-2-virus-quebec-321890 <p>The <a href="http://www.inspq.qc.ca">Institut national de santé publique du Québec</a> (INSPQ) and the McGill Genome Centre today announced they will partner to sequence the viral genomes of Quebec patients with COVID-19 disease. The collaboration, termed “Coronavirus Sequencing in Quebec,” (CoVSeQ) is led by Profs Sandrine Moreira, Hugues Charest and Michel Roger at the Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec (LSPQ) of the INSPQ. The viral samples are taken from a Quebec viral biobank, termed the CoVBanQ, which is hosted in LSPQ.</p> Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:53:45 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 209574 at /newsroom