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Seawater: memory keeper, energy source, and pollution tracking

Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia
Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia. Credit: Mike McDermid

What can a bottle of seawater tell you about the fish living below?

Classified as: seawater, water, Sustainability, clean energy, Hydrogen, Artificial intelligence, contaminants, pollution, viruses, oil spills
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Published on: 21 Oct 2022

Viruses can ‘hijack’ cellular process to block immune response

Research led by McGill University and Queen’s University Belfast has found that viruses can ‘hijack’ an existing molecular process in the cell in order to block the body’s antiviral immune response to a viral infection.

The results of the study have been published in the journal Molecular Cell.

Classified as: viruses, hijack cellular, immune response, Seyed Mehdi Jafarnejad, Nahum Sonenberg
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Published on: 17 Feb 2021

Bacteriophages may play a role in childhood stunting… and be able to help treat it

New research spearheaded by McGill University has discovered that bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) found in the intestinal tracts of children may play a role in childhood stunting, a significant impediment to growth that affects 22% of children under the age of five around the world.

Classified as: Stunting, gut microbiota, bacteriophages, phages, viruses, bacteria, Corinne Maurice, Sustainability
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Published on: 12 Feb 2020
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