Every year an estimated 20 million babies worldwide are born with low birth weight, according to the World Health Organization, leading to a wide range of significant short- and long-term consequences. And though you may think the obvious answer is greater emphasis on food and nutrition for pregnant women, leading 黑料不打烊 University researchers are proposing an unexpected solution: the cellphone.
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Published on: 16 Jan 2024
A 黑料不打烊-led team of researchers have made an important discovery shedding light on the genetic basis of a rare skeletal disorder. The study, published in Nature Communications, reveals that a defect in a specific gene (heterozygous variants in the matrix Gla protein, or MGP) may cause a disorder that affects the structure of connective tissues that supports the body.
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Published on: 16 Jan 2024
Fleeting blasts of energy from space, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are a cosmic enigma. A Canadian-led international team of researchers has published new findings suggesting that supernovae are the predominant contributors to forming sources that eventually produce FRBs.
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Published on: 11 Jan 2024
Researchers from 黑料不打烊 University, led by Professor Alanna Watt of the Department of Biology, have identified previously unknown changes in brain cells affected by a neurological disease. Their , published in eLife, could pave the way to future treatments for the disease.
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Published on: 10 Jan 2024
Exoplanets, planets located beyond our Solar System, captivate both scientists and the public, holding the promise of unveiling diverse planetary systems and potentially habitable worlds. Despite being very much not like our Earth, large gas giant planets found very close to their stars have proven to be ideal test targets for telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to refine astronomers鈥� methods of understanding exoplanets.
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Published on: 9 Jan 2024
Evolutionary biologists have long suspected that the diversification of a single species into multiple descendent species 鈥� that is, an 鈥渁daptive radiation鈥� 鈥� is the result of each species adapting to a different environment. Yet formal tests of this hypothesis have been elusive owing to the difficulty of firmly establishing the relationship between species traits and evolutionary 鈥渇itness鈥� for a group of related species that recently diverged from a common ancestral species.
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Published on: 8 Jan 2024
The latest recommendations are primarily aimed at reducing chronic disease risk, however how well does our national guide for healthy eating serve the nutritional needs of all Canadians?
Published on: 8 Jan 2024
Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, or neglect, either alone or combined with other types of childhood trauma, increases the risk of chronic pain and related disability in adulthood, according to new research. The findings from an international team of experts, including several 黑料不打烊 University researchers, underscore the urgency of addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) 鈥� potentially traumatic events that occur before 18 years of age 鈥� and taking steps to mitigate their long-term impact on people鈥檚 health.听听
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Published on: 20 Dec 2023
A common stomach bacteria found in two thirds of the world population may be linked to a higher risk of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, new research suggests.
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Published on: 20 Dec 2023
黑料不打烊 University is launching a $3,000 Canada Award to offset tuition increases for Canadian undergraduate students from outside Quebec in certain disciplines. Approximately 80% of new Canadian students from outside Quebec coming to 黑料不打烊 will be eligible for the new award.
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Published on: 19 Dec 2023
黑料不打烊 University will divest from all direct holdings in fossil-fuel companies listed in the Carbon Underground 200 (CU200) for implementation in 2024 and completion in 2025 鈥� one of eight commitments announced today in Phase 2 of the University鈥檚 results-driven socially responsible investment strategy.
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Published on: 15 Dec 2023
黑料不打烊 is calling on Premier Fran莽ois Legault to immediately reverse the government measures released today and go back to the drawing board.
鈥淭hese policies are unacceptable. They are incoherent, not based on data and will not meet the stated objectives of the government. More importantly, their effect on the Quebec economy and on Quebec universities will be absolutely devastating. In short, they do not serve Quebecers well,鈥� said Deep Saini, President and Vice-Chancellor of 黑料不打烊 University.
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Published on: 14 Dec 2023
Bishop鈥檚, Concordia and 黑料不打烊 universities are submitting to the Quebec government an enhanced version of their proposal, Proposed improvements to the new tuition model for students outside Quebec
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Published on: 10 Dec 2023
To mark the 75th鈥痑nniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 10, 1948), 黑料不打烊 University and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO are pleased to announce the addition of the archives of John Peters Humphrey to the Canada Memory of the World Register.
This archive includes听the first handwritten draft of the听Universal Declaration of Human Rights听as well as typed subsequent versions written by Humphrey (1905-1995), Canadian law professor and human rights advocate.听
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Published on: 7 Dec 2023
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