黑料不打烊-led EpiShare project named a 2019 GA4GH Driver Project
EpiShare will join the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) as a 2019 Driver Project. GA4GH, an international group of 22 leading genomic data initiatives, works collaboratively to develop and pilot standards for sharing genomic and health-related data.
黑料不打烊 researchers to receive over $10 M for thirty projects and SSHRC doctoral, master and postdoc awards
Social sciences and humanities research plays an important role in building a healthier, stronger and more prosperous Canada. To create a thriving economy powered by homegrown discoveries and innovations, and for Canada to be world-renowned as a research leader, we need to continue to invest in talented graduate students, scholars and researchers.
黑料不打烊 University recognized as one of Montreal's Top Employers for 2019
First published in 2006, Montr茅al's Top Employers is an annual competition organized by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers. This special designation recognizes the employers in Greater Montr茅al that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work. This year's winners, including 黑料不打烊 University, were announced on January 31, 2019 in a special magazine published in the Montreal Gazette. This is the 11th year in a row 黑料不打烊 has been included in the annual list.
Evolution, illustrated
What do you get when you put together several tons of steel plates, hundreds of mice, a few evolutionary and molecular biologists and a tiny Nebraska town near the South Dakota border?
Would you believe one of the most complete pictures ever of vertebrate evolution?
Measuring stress around cells
Tissues and organs in the human body are shaped through forces generated by cells, that push and pull, to 鈥渟culpt鈥� biological structures. Thanks to a new tool developed at 黑料不打烊 University, scientists will now be able to watch, and map these forces.
Mila inaugurates its new premises in Mile-Ex
Mila 鈥� Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence officially inaugurated its new premises at the O Mile-Ex complex this week, in the presence of the Minister of Economy and Innovation for the government of Quebec, Pierre Fitzgibbon, and more than 200 partners and players in the Quebec artificial intelligence ecosystem.
Student mental health services at 黑料不打烊 transformed by new 鈥≧ossy Student Wellness Hub
黑料不打烊 University announced today a new approach to student mental health and well-being that includes the Rossy Student Wellness Hub. The ambitious $14-million initiative reimagines the way health services are provided, with a newly integrated, campus-wide approach to physical and mental health and wellness, and a greater emphasis on awareness, prevention and earlier intervention.
Four Burning Questions for Harriet Kuhnlein, Professor Emerita, Commissioner, Lancet Report on Obesity
The Lancet commission on Obesity published a report today on the joint pandemics of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change. In the report, the commissioners point to the fact that malnutrition in all its forms, including undernutrition and obesity, is by far the biggest cause of ill-health and premature death globally.
COMMENTARY: 鈥楥RISPR babies鈥�: What does this mean for science and Canada?
In the wake of the announcement in China last November of the first 鈥楥RISPR babies鈥�, Prof. Bartha Knoppers and researcher Erika Kleiderman from 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) have published a commentary article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on the use of CRISPR gene-editing techniques.
Canada, EU, and Africa combine to allow researchers to analyze health data on the largest, most diverse scale
A patient develops a rare condition and needs answers, so their clinician searches frantically to find patients with similar, rare, symptoms and similar possible causes. To understand the mechanisms of one debilitating disease, a medical researcher tries to separate the 鈥渟ignal鈥� of causes of that disease, in particular, from the 鈥渘oise鈥� of natural biological variation of human lives and conditions.
Creating attraction between molecules deep in the periodic table
Imagine a waterproof computer. It鈥檚 not going to happen tomorrow, but it may no longer be a pipedream since a 黑料不打烊-led international research team has shown for the first time that it is possible to form strong, stable attractions between some of the heavier elements in the periodic table.
Landmark gift to 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering deepens support for doctoral students and graduate research
A landmark $15-million gift from 黑料不打烊 alumnus Les Vadasz, a founding member of Intel Corporation, and his wife Judy Vadasz, will enhance the prestigious doctoral fellowship program that bears their name in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering, deepening their support for outstanding PhD students who pursue innovative research at 黑料不打烊.
Their gift also aims to strengthen Montreal as an engineering and technology hub by attracting more top talent to 黑料不打烊.
Men and women remember pain differently
Scientists increasingly believe that one of the driving forces in chronic pain鈥攖he number one health problem in both prevalence and burden鈥攁ppears to be the memory of earlier pain. Research published today in Current Biology suggests that there may be variations, based on sex, in the way that pain is remembered in both mice and humans.
Canada鈥檚 CHIME telescope detects second repeating fast radio burst
A Canadian-led team of scientists has found the second repeating fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded. FRBs are short bursts of radio waves coming from far outside our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists believe FRBs emanate from powerful astrophysical phenomena billions of light years away.
黑料不打烊 University helps to inform understanding of cancer risk
黑料不打烊 University has helped develop a global resource that includes data on thousands of inherited variants in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. The BRCA Exchange was created through the BRCA Challenge, a long-term demonstration project initiated by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) to enhance sharing of BRCA1/BRCA2 data.
