Origin of a complex life form revealed

Published: 2 September 2020

Researchers from McGill University have revealed the steps by which two very distinct organisms – bacteria and carpenter ants – have come to depend on one another for survival to become a single...

McGill researchers honoured in Québec Science 2019 list of top discoveries

Published: 9 January 2020

Research from McGill University topped Québec Science’s annual list of the 10 most important scientific breakthroughs. This year, Günther Grill, Bernhard Lehner, Tomislav Friščić, Heidi M. McBride,...

Honey, I shrunk the ants: how environment controls size

Published: 11 March 2015

Until now scientists have believed that the variations in traits such as our height, skin colour, tendency to gain weight or not, intelligence, tendency to develop certain diseases, etc., all of...

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