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ALS Awareness Month – June 2016

Published: 13 June 2016

The Neuro is recognized as a major Canadian center for ALS research and patient care. During June, designated ALS Month, The Neuro redoubles its efforts to inform the public and the media about...

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MNI researchers receive funding to study ARSACS

Published: 24 November 2016

Two researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (MNI) of McGill University have received funding to study a devastating neurodegenerative disease that first appears in toddlers...

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The Neuro and Thermo Fisher Scientific Partner to Fight Neurodegenerative Disease

Published: 5 March 2018

Industry and academia to share expertise in effort to develop improved methods to produce and characterize antibodies and reagents for neurological research

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Opinion: scientists need to demand better antibody validation

22 Oct 2019

My lab has developed a protocol to easily assess the specificity of antibodies—and hopefully stem some of the reproducibility crisis

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Improving research with more effective antibodies

Published: 15 October 2019

Scientists demonstrate flaws in protein detection tools, and outline a solution ...

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Understanding synaptic genes

4 Jun 2019

International collaboration reveals important characteristics of neuron connectors

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Peter Scott McPherson, PhD

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Epileptic encephalopathy linked to protein trafficking gene

Published: 28 November 2016

Researchers have linked a debilitating neurological disease in children to mutations in a gene that regulates neuronal development through control of protein movement within neuronal cells.

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Breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells metastasize

Published: 26 February 2015

Montreal Neurological Institute scientists discover a new mechanism driving spread of cancer ...

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The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) is a bilingual academic healthcare institution. We are a McGill research and teaching institute; delivering high-quality patient care, as part of the Neuroscience Mission of the McGill University Health Centre. We are proud to be a Killam Institution, supported by the Killam Trusts.