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Newswise — The Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer of the Université de Montréal (IRIC) high-throughput screening platform has been awarded $583,654 by Quebec’s Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie, following a call for projects launched as part of the Quebec Research and Innovation Investment Strategy 2022-2027 (SQRI2). The funded project aims…
Could a cancer drug already on the market be used to treat certain children with a rare genetic disorder called Noonan syndrome (NS)? A new retrospective study by doctors and scientists at 27 institutions worldwide suggests that yes, it can. The findings were published today by researchers, including Dr. Cordula Wolf of the University of Munich, Dr. Martin Zenker of…
Newswise — Lemurs – those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa – are a mystery of evolution. When the first ones arrived there tens of millions of years ago, they found an island with wildly diverse ecosystems, from wet tropical forests in the east to…
Nearly 10 per cent of people live with chronic kidney disease – in other words, their kidneys can’t adequately filter waste from their blood. Now a Canadian study links that malfunction to impaired cognitive performance in reasoning, working memory and reaction time. The study was conducted by Shady Rahayel, a neuropsychologist and professor in the…
Newswise — Going to the sauna offers the prospect of a cozy wooden space, where both mind and body can shelter from the pressures of daily life. The enjoyable aspects of this centuries-old ancestral practice have are known around the world. Now scientists have confirmed what tradition has long held to be true: the benefits…
Newswise — For years, Université de Montréal medical professor Stephanie Fulton and her team have been unravelling the mechanisms in the human nervous system that control people’s need to eat and to engage in physical activity, and how their metabolism affects their mood. Their latest discovery, published in Nature Communications, takes that knowledge a step…
UdeM has taken an important step on the environmental front by publishing its first verified carbon footprint report. According to the detailed breakdown, in 2022-23 the university’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions totalled more than 63,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2eq). In the French-language report, the emissions were catalogued in three categories: According to sustainable…
Newswise — The team led by Dr. May Faraj, Professor of Nutrition at Université de Montréal and Director of the Nutrition, Lipoproteins and Cardiometabolic Diseases Research Unit at the Montréal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), sheds new light on the role of marine-source omega-3 supplementation in treating adipose tissue inflammation and reducing the risk for cardiometabolic…
Modern therapies help people living with HIV to survive, but scientists are still trying to decipher the deep mystery of how to eventually eradicate the virus for good. Now new laboratory work in Canada sheds light on the vulnerabilities of HIV’s pockets of resistance in the body, and potential ways to thwart them. Led by…
The fifth Congress of the Mukwege International Chair will explore the theme “Ending gender-based violence: Women’s empowerment and sustainable development”, an indissociable aspect of the mission undertaken by Dr. Denis Mukwege, who was the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2018. This event is the result of a collaboration between various UdeM entities, including the Observatoire…
