In a paper published this week in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from McGill University have demonstrated for the first time that there are specific neurons that respond selectively to first and second order sensory attributes.
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Published on: 24 Apr 2012
A new study by Carsten Wrosch of Concordia University and Catherine Sabiston of McGill’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education found that breast cancer survivors who were able to let go of old exercise goals and set new ones increased their level of physical activity and showed an improved well-being overall.
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Published on: 23 Apr 2012
A new McGill University study evaluating off-label prescribing of medications by primary care physicians in Quebec suggests the practice is common, although it varies by medication, patient and physician characteristics. The paper was published online today in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Published on: 16 Apr 2012
$1 million in donations to support Desautels Faculty of Management programs
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Published on: 5 Apr 2012
McGill team develops new technology that can accurately measure protein biomarkers
Published on: 5 Apr 2012
The McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre is pleased to announce that they have been awarded funding totalling $7.6 million over a two-year period from Genome Canada’s 2010 Competition. This award, a record for Québec, will fund the operations of the Innovation Centre as well as the services offered to scientific communities in Québec, the rest of Canada and around the world.
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Published on: 4 Apr 2012
The Lady Davis Institute (LDI) and McGill University are delighted to announce that Dr. Mark A. Wainberg has been awarded the 2012 Killam Prize in Health Sciences by the Canada Council for the Arts. He is the past Director of the LDI and is currently head of its HIV/AIDS research axis and Director of the McGill AIDS Centre.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2012
A current controversy raging in evolutionary biology is about whether adaptation to new environments is the result of many genes, each of relatively small effect, or just a few genes of large effect. A new study published in Molecular Ecology by McGill biologist Andrew Hendry and a colleague from Basel University strongly supports the first “many-small” hypothesis.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2012
Published on: 2 Apr 2012
Results provide fresh support for Einstein’s cosmological constant
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Published on: 2 Apr 2012
$500,000 gift to fund bursaries for Desautels undergraduates, fellowships for graduate studies
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Published on: 29 Mar 2012
Social justice expert and activist Judy Rebick delivers the William R. Eakin Lecture in Canadian Studies
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Published on: 27 Mar 2012
Study considers effects of motherhood on employment across generations of Canadian women
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Published on: 26 Mar 2012
Generous gift commemorates Institute’s 60th anniversary
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Published on: 26 Mar 2012
Nearly one in five people suffers from the insidious and often devastating problem of chronic pain. That the problem persists, and is growing, is striking given the many breakthroughs in understanding the basic biology of pain over the past two decades. Research published online in Nature Medicine points to potential solutions.
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Published on: 26 Mar 2012
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