15-minutes of exercise creates optimal brain state for mastering new motor skills

Published: 9 July 2018

If you want to learn to walk a tightrope, it’s a good idea to go for a short run after each practice session. That’s because a recent study in NeuroImage demonstrates that exercise performed...

Towards a better understanding of Parkinson’s disease

Published: 3 July 2018

A new study, published today in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, moves researchers closer to understanding one of the crucial proteins involved in Parkinson’s disease.

Rare mutation of gene carried by Québec family gives insight into how the brain is wired

Published: 18 June 2018

The study of a Québec family with an unusual gene provides novel insight into how our brain is built and, according to the McGill led team of scientists, offers a better understanding of...

No grain self-sufficiency in China without changes to land policies

Published: 7 June 2018

If China is to achieve its target of 95% grain self-sufficiency by 2030 it will need to restrict the conversion of arable land to other uses say researchers from McGill. This may prove challenging...

Climate change = a much greater diversity of species + a need to rethink conservation paradigms

Published: 15 May 2018

A team of researchers believe that Quebec’s protected areas are poised to become biodiversity refuges of continental importance. They used ecological niche modeling to calculate potential changes...

Plants, fungi and bacteria work together to clean polluted land

Published: 28 March 2018

Highly complex interactions among roots, fungi and bacteria underlie the ability of some trees to clean polluted land, according to a novel study by bioinformatics and plant-biology experts from...

Isabelle Daunais Wins 2016 Killam Prize in Humanities

Published: 18 April 2016

By Kathryn Jezer-Morton Three of the six Killam Research Fellows also teach at McGill

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