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Researchers’ novel lab technique reveals how ice crystals form in clouds

webfull — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:10:34 +0000

Researchers have developed a novel method to detect and study how ice forms in mixed-phase clouds, significantly boosting scientists’ ability to forecast weather and model climate change.

Published: 23 July 2025

Youth at risk of suicide show early warning signs that adults often miss

webfull — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:22:33 +0000

Drawing on a landmark 25-year study that followed Quebec children into adulthood, ɬ�﷬ researchers have identified two distinct patterns in how suicidal thoughts emerge and the early signs that are often missed.

Suicidal thoughts are increasingly common among youth, but how they begin and what mental health symptoms often precede them are poorly understood, the researchers said.

Published: 23 July 2025

Racial-minority business owners can benefit from ‘white guilt,’ marketing study finds

webfull — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:17:56 +0000

Researchers who explored how consumers’ ethical values can shape their shopping habits suggest that business owners from marginalized racial groups can appeal to socially conscious consumers by highlighting their identity, helping promote racial equity through values-driven purchasing.

Published: 22 July 2025

Ancient viruses in our DNA may hold clues to what makes us human

webfull — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:41:55 +0000

Fragments of ancient viral DNA once dismissed as “junk” may play a role in controlling our genes, according to a new international study.

Using a novel method to trace the evolutionary history of viral DNA, researchers from ɬ�﷬ and Kyoto University uncovered sequences that had been overlooked in earlier genome annotations.

Published: 21 July 2025

Common hereditary cancer mutation in Quebec traced to single ancestor

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:17:28 +0000

Researchers have shed new light on the most common genetic variant linked to hereditary cancer in Quebec’s French-Canadian population. Their findings could result in cheaper and more effective screening methods.

The variant is associated with Lynch syndrome, a condition that greatly increases the risk of colorectal and other cancers.

Published: 17 July 2025

Simple texting platform helps farmers adopt greener methods, ɬ�﷬-led study finds

webfull — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:58:27 +0000

Farmers who exchanged text messages with peers were significantly more likely to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, highlighting the power of peer learning in digital formats, a new study co-authored by ɬ�﷬ Professor Aurélie Harou found.

Published: 16 July 2025

Study helps explain why chronic pain is often discounted

webfull — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:04:15 +0000

A new study by ɬ�﷬ researchers shows that chronic pain, often invisible to medical tests, can be better assessed when doctors take a holistic approach.

By combining biological data with information about patients’ mental health, sleep and stress, the researchers say they were able to create a fuller picture of chronic pain. They said their findings, published in Nature Human Behaviour, stand to improve how the condition is diagnosed and treated.

Published: 15 July 2025

New study reveals promising strategy to retrain neutrophils to target breast cancer

webfull — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:44:30 +0000

A ground-breaking study conducted by researchers from ɬ�﷬, the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (LDI) at the Jewish General Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and MIT has identified a novel approach to combat aggressive breast cancers by retraining neutrophils, the body’s first responders, to directly kill tumour cells. This research offers new hope for patients with breast cancers that do not respond well to existing immunotherapies.

Published: 14 July 2025

ɬ�﷬ scientists develop cleaner, cheaper way to make lithium-ion batteries

webfull — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:11:10 +0000

A team of ɬ�﷬ researchers, working with colleagues in the United States and South Korea, has developed a new way to make high-performance lithium-ion battery materials that could help phase out expensive and/or difficult-to-source metals like nickel and cobalt.

Published: 11 July 2025

Study reveals trained immunity may cause lung damage

webfull — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:09:16 +0000

Trained immunity – a process being explored in vaccine and therapy development to boost immune defences – appears be counterproductive in certain contexts, researchers at ɬ�﷬ and the Research Institute of the ɬ�﷬ Health Centre (The Institute) have found.

Trained immunity is when the body’s first line of defence remembers past threats and becomes more reactive, responding more strongly to future infections even if they are different, by changing how immune cells behave.

Published: 10 July 2025