25 Canada Research Chairs for McGill
Twenty-five outstanding McGill researchers are being awarded Canada Research Chairs (CRC), as announced today by the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, at the University of British Columbia.
Find a partner who marches to the beat of your own drum
By Cynthia Lee
Newsroom
Everyone marches to the beat of their own drum: From walking to talking to producing music, different people’s movements occur at different speeds.
Suicide: victimized teens more at risk
A new study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) by the team of Dr Marie-Claude Geoffroy, researcher at the CIUSSS de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (Douglas mental health university institute, McGill
Location may be key to effectively controlling pain
By Cynthia Lee
Newsroom
Anonymous browsing hinders online dating signals
By Chris Chipello
Newsroom
Want to rewire a neuron? You’ve got to take it slow
By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom
New technique offers potential to reconnect neurons of people with central nervous system damage
Chronic pain changes our immune systems
By Cynthia Lee Newsroom
Chronic pain may reprogram the way genes work in the immune system, according to a new study by McGill University researchers published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Why do some fish thrive in oil-polluted water?
By Melody Enguix
McGill Newsroom
When scientists from McGill University learned that some fish were proliferating in rivers and ponds polluted by oil extraction in Southern Trinidad, it caught their attention. They thought they had found a rare example of a species able to adapt to crude oil pollution.
Leadership: Key to care, retention among nurses
By Cynthia Lee
Newsroom
Word-of-mouth recruitment can help workforce diversity
By Chris Chipello Newsroom
Word-of-mouth recruitment is the most common way to fill jobs, and management scholars have long thought that this practice contributes to job segregation by gender: women tend to reach out to other women in their networks, and men do likewise.
Guidelines for human genome editing
By Vincent C. Allaire Newsroom
Human genome editing for both research and therapy is progressing, raising ethical questions among scientists around the world.
Fight tumors and infections with targeted drugs
By Cynthia Lee
Cost burden of Quebec’s carbon market seen as modest
By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom
Study by McGill researchers assesses short-run impacts on households, industries
The cost burden of Quebec’s carbon-pricing policy, is likely to be modest across income groups and industries, according to a McGill University research team.
