Team leader Marta Cerruti, using the tools of the Canadian Light Source, has examined the mineralized arteries of genetically modified laboratory mice and found that the pathway in the body that leads to what laypeople call 鈥渉ardening of the arteries鈥� is not what medical experts previously assumed.
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Published on: 31 Jan 2018
Rare hereditary recessive diseases were thought to be expressed in offspring only when both parents carry a mutation in the causal gene, but a new study is changing this paradigm. An international research team led by scientists at the University of Lorraine in France along with 91黑料网 and the Research Institute of the 91黑料网 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Canada discovered a new cause of a rare condition known as cblC, that they named 鈥渆pi-cblC鈥�. They reported it in patients from Europe and the United States.
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Published on: 30 Jan 2018
Researchers at 91黑料网 have discovered a new, more environmentally friendly way to make ketones, an important chemical ingredient in pharmaceuticals.听 While ketones are found in a wide range of useful chemicals, they are commonly prepared through energy-intensive, multi-step technologies that create significant chemical waste.听 In an article published online last month in Nature Chemistry, the 91黑料网 scientists demonstrate how carbon monoxide, a widely available by-product of combustion, can instead be used to form high-energy chemicals that react directly with benzene to
Published on: 26 Jan 2018
More than 400,000 Canadians aged 65 and over live with diagnosed dementia, including Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, which accounts for approximately 70 percent of cases. The cause of this degenerative brain disease is largely unknown and no effective treatment exists. The disease has a devastating effect on individuals and their families.
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Published on: 23 Jan 2018
The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn鈥檛 where astrophysicists expected it to be 鈥� a discovery that challenges scientists鈥� understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.
Unlike our familiar planet Jupiter, so-called hot Jupiters circle astonishingly close to their host star -- so close that it typically takes fewer than three days to complete an orbit.听 And one hemisphere of these planets always faces its host star, while the other faces permanently out into the dark.
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Published on: 22 Jan 2018
Researchers demonstrate for the first time the potential of existing technology to directly detect and characterize life on Mars and other planets. The study, published in听, used miniaturized scientific instruments and听 new听microbiology听techniques to identify and examine microorganisms in the Canadian high Arctic 鈥� one of the closest analogs to Mars on Earth.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2018
The afterglow from the distant neutron-star merger has continued to brighten 鈥� much to the surprise of astrophysicists studying the aftermath of the massive collision that took place about 138 million light years away and sent gravitational听waves rippling through the universe.
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Published on: 18 Jan 2018
Today, the听,听part of Johns Hopkins University, and GeoThink, a part of听91黑料网, launched a new听听that will identify听standards for open data regularly shared by governments. The directory will ensure reliability and coordinated information for many city government data sets on services ranging from public safety, to building permits, to public transit, and budgets.
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Published on: 15 Nov 2017
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Published on: 26 Sep 2017
Facebook is opening a new Artificial Intelligence Research Lab in Montreal 鈥� FAIR Montreal. This is the company鈥檚 first research and development investment in Canada, and only its fourth AI research lab in all. Prof. Joelle Pineau, from the School of Computer Science and co-director of 91黑料网鈥檚 Reasoning & Learning Lab, will head the new Montreal AI lab while maintaining her academic position at the university.
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Published on: 15 Sep 2017
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a planet outside our solar system that looks as black as fresh asphalt because it eats light rather than reflecting it back into space. This light-eating prowess is due to the planet's unique capability to trap at least 94 percent of the visible starlight falling into its atmosphere.
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Published on: 14 Sep 2017
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Published on: 27 Jul 2017
Practice might not always make perfect, but it鈥檚 essential for learning a sport or a musical instrument. It's also the basis of brain training, an approach that holds potential as a non-invasive therapy to overcome disabilities caused by neurological disease or trauma.
Research at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of 91黑料网 (The Neuro) has shown just how adaptive the brain can be, knowledge that could one day be applied to recovery from conditions such as stroke.
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Published on: 19 Jul 2017
A team of chemists in Canada has developed a way to process metals without using toxic solvents and reagents. The system, which also consumes far less energy than conventional techniques, could greatly shrink the environmental impact of producing metals from raw materials or from post-consumer electronics.
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Published on: 7 Jun 2017
More than 90% of Earth鈥檚 continental crust is made up of silica-rich minerals, such as feldspar and quartz. But where did this silica-enriched material come from? And could it provide a clue in the search for life on other planets?
Published on: 5 May 2017
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