Discovery of a new key player in long-term memory

Published: 7 October 2020

A McGill-led multi-institutional research team has discovered that during memory consolidation, there are at least two distinct processes taking place in two different brain networks – the...

Expert opinion: COVID-19 vaccine rollout unlikely before fall 2021

Published: 1 October 2020

Experts working in the field of vaccine development tend to believe that an effective vaccine is not likely to be available for the general public before the fall of 2021. In a paper published...

Better understanding of nature’s nanomachines may help in design of future drugs

Published: 30 April 2020

Many of the drugs and medicines that we rely on today are natural products taken from microbes like bacteria and fungi. Within these microbes, the drugs are made by tiny natural machines – mega...

National study to collect data on aging adults’ experiences during COVID-19 pandemic

Published: 22 April 2020

How does a pandemic affect the physical and psychological health of adults as they age? Does COVID-19 have an impact on the delivery of regular health-care services? Does a COVID-19 infection lead...

The placebo effect and psychedelic drugs: tripping on nothing?

Published: 30 March 2020

There has been a lot of recent interest in the use of psychedelic drugs to treat depression. A new study from McGill suggests that, in the right context, some people may experience psychedelic-like...

McGill researchers claim three spots in demanding AI funding competition

Published: 24 February 2020

Earlier today, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced the results of the competition for the Canada-UK Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative, and three McGill teams...

Two McGill professors lead new Stand Up to Cancer Canada Metastatic Breast Cancer Dream Team

Published: 12 August 2019

Marc Miller, Member of Parliament (Ville-Marie–Le Sud-Ouest–Île-des-Sœurs, Quebec) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, on behalf of the Honourable Ginette...

Professor Maryam Tabrizian receives Collaborative Health Research Project Grant

Published: 9 August 2019

Funding from the country’s three federal granting councils—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities...

Children in Quebec are not diagnosed early enough with type 1 diabetes

Published: 14 May 2019

Elwyn was a healthy 13 month-old toddler when she started drinking water from the bathtub. Over time, she became increasingly thirsty and demanded more and more breast milk. For her parents, this...

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