Approximately a year after the legalization of marijuana in Canada last fall, the new McGill Research Centre for Cannabis is poised to examine the role that legal cannabis will be playing in our society on many fronts. The trans-disciplinary centre, a partnership between six McGill faculties (Medicine, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Law, Science, Education, and Management) and the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute (RI-MUHC), has already initiated a number of research projects in fundamental and applied science.
Published on: 9 Oct 2019
Rappelling down a 650-foot cliff to catch seabirds on a remote island just below the Arctic Circle was scary enough.
“The first time you look over and you rappel over, it’s certainly not for the faint of heart,” said Kyle Elliott, a research chair in Arctic ecology at McGill University in Canada.
But for Elliott and fellow researcher Emile Brisson Curadeau, it was the hungry polar bears (Ursus maritimus) — usually one a day walking near their cabin — that raised real concerns, and devoured their research subjects.
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Published on: 22 Aug 2019
Despite evidence from other regions, researchers and policy-makers remain skeptical that women’s disproportionate childcare responsibilities act as a significant barrier to women’s economic empowerment in Africa. This randomized control trial study in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, demonstrates that limited access to affordable early childcare inhibits poor urban women’s participation in paid work.
Co-authored by Shelley Clark (McGill), Caroline W. Kabiru (APHRC), Sonia Laszlo (McGill) and Stella Muthuri (APHRC)
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Published on: 9 Jul 2019
This document summarizes activity carried out from 2014-2018. It illustrates Dialogue McGill’s intent, in Phase 3 of its development, to strengthen ties between its partners, standardize its programs, and refine impact measurement.
Dialogue McGill – Main Achievements 2014-2018
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Published on: 7 Jun 2019
McGill University astrophysicist Matt Dobbs is the recipient of the 2019 Killam Research Fellowship in Natural Sciences.
The announcement was made today by the Canada Council for the Arts, which revealed this year's winners of the prestigious Killam Program, composed of the Killam Prizes and the Killam Research Fellowships.
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Published on: 25 Apr 2019
The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, this morning announced a new Canada Excellence Research Chair in Genomic Medicine: Genes to Drug Targets for Next-Generation Therapies
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Published on: 17 Apr 2019
Research published this week in Science Advances shows that it may be possible to create rocket fuel that is much cleaner and safer than the hypergolic fuels that are commonly used today. And still just as effective. The new fuels use simple chemical “triggers” to unlock the energy of one of the hottest new materials, a class of porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. MOFs are made up of clusters of metal ions and an organic molecule called a linker.
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Published on: 5 Apr 2019
Large international study will help select and categorize patients for better clinical trials
A large multi-centre study of more than 1,200 patients provides important predictors of Parkinson’s disease progression, which will allow better candidate selection for clinical trials and more effective therapy development.
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Published on: 4 Mar 2019
Methanol—a colourless liquid that can be made from agricultural waste—has long been touted as a green alternative to fossil fuels. But it’s toxic and only has half the energy as the same volume of gasoline. Now, Chao-Jun Li and colleagues report they’ve created a potentially cheap way to use sunlight to convert methanol to ethanol, a more popular alternative fuel that’s less harmful and carries more energy.
Published on: 21 Feb 2019
The weather these days is wild and will be wilder still within a century. In part, because the water from melting ice sheets off Greenland and in the Antarctic will cause extreme weather and unpredictable temperatures around the globe. A study published today in Nature is the first to simulate the effects, under current climate policies, that the two melting ice sheets will have on ocean temperatures and circulation patterns as well as on air temperatures by the year 2100.
Consequences for ocean circulation and water and air temperatures
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Published on: 6 Feb 2019
What do you get when you put together several tons of steel plates, hundreds of mice, a few evolutionary and molecular biologists and a tiny Nebraska town near the South Dakota border?
Would you believe one of the most complete pictures ever of vertebrate evolution?
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Published on: 1 Feb 2019
Mais comment développe-t-on de nouveaux ingrédients fonctionnels? Avec énormément de rigueur scientifique et de patience, comme en font foi les travaux de recherche de Salwa Karboune, professeure adjointe et doyenne à la recherche au département des sciences des aliments et d’agriculture à l’Université McGill. « Nous savons aujourd’hui que le microbiote intestinal est, en quelque sorte, le cerveau de notre santé », affirme Mme Karboune. C’est pourquoi il est si important d’étudier les composés qui favorisent la santé intestinale.
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Published on: 17 Jan 2019
Scientists increasingly believe that one of the driving forces in chronic pain—the number one health problem in both prevalence and burden—appears to be the memory of earlier pain. Research published today in Current Biology suggests that there may be variations, based on sex, in the way that pain is remembered in both mice and humans.
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Published on: 10 Jan 2019
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Published on: 3 Jan 2019
Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education discusses climate change knowledge and how to develop tomorrow’s sustainability leaders
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Published on: 11 Dec 2018
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