Study sheds light on the causes of cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of physical disability in children. Every year 140 children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy in Quebec.
黑料不打烊 gets $91.5 mln in CIHR funding
Researchers from 黑料不打烊 University and its hospital-affiliated research institutes have been awarded $91.5 million in grants in the latest round of funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Practice doesn鈥檛 always make perfect
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? New research on the brain鈥檚 capacity to learn suggests there鈥檚 more to it than the adage that 鈥減ractise makes perfect.鈥� A music-training study by scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at 黑料不打烊 University and colleagues in Germany found evidence to distinguish the parts of the brain that account for individual talent from the parts that are activated through training.
Almost $10 million for salmonella research
Poultry used to be the usual suspect in cases of Salmonella poisoning. Today, however, most outbreaks of the illness come from fruit and vegetables that have become infected when the soil in which they grow is polluted by animal waste or non-potable water. There currently is no method of reducing the growth of Salmonella on such produce.
HIV uses the immune system鈥檚 own tools to suppress it
A Canadian research team at the IRCM in Montr茅al, led by molecular virologist 脡ric A. Cohen, PhD, made a significant discovery on how HIV escapes the body鈥檚 antiviral responses. The team uncovered how an HIV viral protein known as Vpu tricks the immune system by using its own regulatory process to evade the host鈥檚 first line of defence. This breakthrough was published yesterday in the scientific journal PLoS Pathogens and will be presented at the upcoming IAS 2015 conference in Vancouver. The findings pave the way for future HIV prevention or cure strategies.
Light can do more
Big Data genomics researchers call for cloud support
Today in the journal Nature prominent researchers from Canada, Europe and the U.S. have made a powerful call to major funding agencies, asking them to commit to establishing a global genomic data commons in the cloud that could be easily accessed by authorized researchers worldwide.
A glimmer of hope for patients with leukodystrophies
Could black phosphorus be the next silicon?
As scientists continue to hunt for a material that will make it possible to pack more transistors on a chip, new research from 黑料不打烊 University and Universit茅 de Montr茅al adds to evidence that black phosphorus could emerge as a strong candidate.
Taking the pain out of office work
Office work will become much less of a pain in the neck if Julie C么t茅 has her way.聽
How insulin calms brain activity
Insulin has long been known as the hormone which controls the body鈥檚 sugar levels: humans who lack or are insensitive to insulin develop diabetes. Although insulin is also made and released in the brain, its effects there have remained unclear.
His and her pain circuitry in the spinal cord
New research released today in Nature Neuroscience reveals for the first time that pain is processed in male and female mice using different cells. These findings have far-reaching implications for our basic understanding of pain, how we develop the next generation of medications for chronic pain鈥攚hich is by far the most prevalent human health condition鈥攁nd the way we execute basic biomedical research using mice.
Examining dads鈥� influence on babies鈥� health
鈥淒on鈥檛 diss dad鈥� might mean more than making sure not to forget dad on Father鈥檚 Day, as researchers look at just how influential environmental exposures and genetic interactions are on dad鈥檚 sperm and, as a result, his offspring.
