Study shows the biological clock influences immune response efficiency
Montreal, September 23, 2019 鈥� According to a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the biological clock influences immune response efficacy. Indeed, CD8 T cells, which are essential to fight infections and cancers, function very differently according to the time of day.
A Canadian First: Research Project will study blows to the head in University Football
涩里番 is participating in a new research project titled听T锚te premi猫re听(head first), led by the team of neuropsychologist听Dr. Louis De Beaumont, a researcher at the CIUSSS du Nord-de-l鈥櫭巐e-de-Montr茅al research centre and a professor in the Department of Surgery at Universit茅 de Montr茅al. The project will assess the brain鈥檚 capacities to sustain blows to the head during a full university football season.
Four Burning Questions with Anthony Bossis, PhD
A clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine, Anthony Bossis, PhD will be at 涩里番 in Montreal on听September 12, 2019听to deliver a talk titled听鈥淧sychedelic Research: Implications for Palliative Care and End-of-Life Existential Distress.鈥澨�
How Salmonella tackles cellular defense mechanisms
Researchers uncover new protein that plays key role in bacterial infections
Early life factors connected to suicide risk later in life
Researchers have long been interested in the question of whether a correlation exists between one鈥檚 early-life environment and suicide rates, with studies on the topic dating back to the 1980s. However, these studies have focused on individual countries or on only one or few risk factors. As a result, the lack of any meta-analysis of the data has made it difficult to draw any coherent conclusions.
A new study shows that the hippocampus retains traces of negative and stressful experiences which are linked to depressive behaviours
Depression can be associated with behaviours such as social avoidance, that is, the refusal to interact with others for fear of being judged or criticized. Physicians and other mental health workers have noted that patients with depressive disorders exhibit cognitive symptoms, especially with regard to memory.
Dr. Joseph Hill named 2019 recipient of the Louis and Artur Lucian Award
The recipient of the 2019 Louis and听Artur Lucian Award is Dr. Joseph Hill from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The award, established through a bequest to 涩里番 by the late Olga Leibovici to honour her two brothers, was designed to honour outstanding research in the field of circulatory diseases by a scientific investigator or group of investigators whose contribution to knowledge in this field is deemed worthy of special recognition.
Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas Taylor announces investment of $150M to create 鈥淭eam Canada of Cancer Research鈥�
MONCTON, NB 鈥� The federal Minister of Health, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, announced today an investment of $150 million over five years by the Government of Canada for the creation of the Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres network.
Research team receives $6M to find new ways to treat metastatic breast cancer
Source: Terry Fox Research Institute
What is the best way to starve cancer cells? What role does obesity play in metastatic breast cancer and how does it affect the tumour microenvironment? Might combining a chemotherapeutic agent with a drug now used to treat diabetes be part of an effective therapy for metastatic breast cancer?
Researchers unlock mysteries of complex microRNA oncogenes
New research led by 涩里番鈥檚 Goodman Cancer Research Centre improves our understanding of microRNAs
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涩里番 researchers reveal how protein mutation is involved in rare brain development disorder
Discovery could provide clues to potential therapies
Rearing its head in infancy, Christianson Syndrome is a rare disorder whose symptoms include intellectual disability, seizures and difficulty standing or walking. Although it is becoming increasingly diagnosed, with little being known about the neural mechanism behind the disease, therapeutic options for patients remain limited.
A Quebec first: Research chair in women鈥檚 heart health
Heart & Stroke and 涩里番 to create Early-Career Professorship in Women鈥檚 Heart Health
$27.9 million investment to fund the Qu茅bec Cancer Consortium to develop novel therapeutics and biomarkers for cancer
The Qu茅bec Cancer Consortium for Novel Therapeutics and Biomarkers (QCC), a collaboration between six leading hospital and cancer research centre sites based in Montreal led by 涩里番鈥檚 Goodman Cancer Research Centre (GCRC) was awarded $10M in new funding from the Minist猫re de l鈥櫭塩onomie et de l鈥橧nnovation (MEI) du Qu茅bec through its Fonds d鈥檃cc茅l茅ration des collaborations en sant茅 (FACS) program.
A step closer to identifying cause of a blinding disease
Researchers find clue to rare genetic disorder
Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is an inherited form of vision loss that causes people to have trouble with their colour vision and difficulty seeing in the centre of their visual field. Due to the founder effect from the filles du roi, there is a disproportionate preponderance of a particular LHON mutation among the French-Canadian population.
A step toward better understanding brain anatomy of autism spectrum disorder
Study could lead to development of personalized biomarkers and treatment
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often lumped into a single catch-all group, despite significant differences in symptom profile and severity. Further muddying the waters when trying to understand and treat ASD, many previous studies show significant variability in findings.