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Newswise — A Université de Montréal research team consisting of Marie-Josée Richer and Pierrich Plusquellec from the School of Psychoeducation, Sébastien Grenier from the Department of Psychology, and Sonia Lupien from the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction, has released the results of a study on stress resilience in seniors. Their findings were published on January…
It only takes members of Canada’s short-track speed-skating team five days to get over jet lag when they fly to competitions in Asia, 13 time zones away, according to a new study. That’s twice as fast as the typical adaptation time, based on the standard theory that air travellers need between 12 and 24 hours…
Newswise — Cecilia lives in Carahatas, a coastal village in Cuba threatened by rising sea levels caused by climate change. Experts predict that part of the village could be under water within 50 years. Government authorities have responded with plans to gradually relocate residents to higher ground. But Cecilia and other locals claim their community…
Newswise — Université de Montréal medical professors Nicolas Chomont and Andrés Finzi have secured $5.75 million over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to try to develop a treatment capable of permanently eliminating HIV from the body. The projects led by Chomont and Finzi, both professors in the Department of Microbiology, Infectiology,…
A significant advancement in knowledge of the link between cognition and genetics has been made thanks to a study led by Université de Montréal graduate students Guillaume Huguet and Thomas Renne, working under the supervision of medical geneticist Sébastien Jacquemont, an associate professor of pediatrics and a researcher at the UdeM-affiliated CHU Saint-Justine. Published last…
Among cisgender Quebec teenagers – that is, those whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth – girls are significantly less likely than boys to achieve orgasm, either through masturbation or with a partner. That’s the finding of a large-scale study of the sexual experiences of 2,800 mostly French-Canadian teens surveyed between 2020 and…
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…
