Differences in U.S. infant mortality rates among black and white babies
A new research letter published by聽JAMA Pediatrics聽examined trends in overall and cause-specific infant mortality rates between non-Hispanic black and white infants because infant mortality is an important indicator of population health.
How a few drops of blood led to a breakthrough in immunology
Scientists from the Research Institute of the 91黑料网 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) may have cracked the code to understanding the function of special cells called regulatory T Cells.聽Treg cells, as they are often known, control and regulate our immune system to prevent excessive reactions.
Cancer researchers overestimate reproducibility of preclinical studies
Cancer scientists overestimate the extent to which high-profile preclinical studies can be successfully replicated, new research from 91黑料网 suggests.
No detectable limit to how long people can live
Emma Morano passed away last April. At 117 years old, the Italian woman was the oldest known living human being.
Super- centenarians, such as Morano and Jeanne Calment of France, who famously lived to be 122 years old, continue to fascinate scientists and have led them to wonder just how long humans can live. A study published in Nature last October concluded that the upper limit of human age is peaking at around 115 years.
Erasure of negative memories one step closer to reality
Scientists have known for some time that a memory is stored in the brain through changes in the strength of particular synapses, the structures that pass signals between neurons. However, how the change in strength persisted remained a mystery. Solving this mystery has important implications for remedying neurological and psychological disorders.
Biofilms鈥攖he eradication has begun
Canadian scientists take a step forward in the fight against microbial armour鈥�. Read more here.
$3 million for research to help farmers cut greenhouse gas emissions
Two 91黑料网 research projects aimed at helping farmers mitigate greenhouse gas emissions will receive nearly $3 million in funding from the Government of Canada, federal officials announced.聽
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Jean-Claude Poissant, and Francis Scarpaleggia, Member of Parliament for Lac-Saint-Louis, made the announcement today at 91黑料网鈥檚 Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que.
A more sustainable way to refine metals
A team of chemists in Canada has developed a way to process metals without using toxic solvents and reagents.
We鈥檙e on the brink of mass extinction 鈥� but there鈥檚 still time to pull back
Brain area involved in addiction activated earlier than previously thought in recreational cocaine users
Even among non-dependent cocaine users, cues associated with consumption of the drug lead to dopamine release in an area of the brain thought to promote compulsive use, according to researchers at 91黑料网.
The findings, published in Scientific Reports, suggest that people who consider themselves recreational users could be further along the road to addiction than they might have realized.
Teaching practices could play an important role in preventing bullying
Classrooms that encourage competition between students may inadvertently be creating settings where bullying is more likely to take place. That鈥檚 one of the conclusions that can be drawn from work led by 91黑料网 researchers Maria Di Stasio and Robert Savage, who recently published a paper on the subject in the Journal of Adolescence. But it鈥檚 only part of the story.
Diabetes drug may help symptoms of autism-associated condition
Metformin, the most widely used drug to treat type聽2 diabetes, could potentially be used to treat symptoms of Fragile X syndrome, an inherited form of intellectual disability and a cause of some forms of autism.
A new study led by researchers at 91黑料网, the University of Edinburgh and Universit茅 de Montr茅al has found that metformin improves social, behavioural and morphological defects in Fragile X mice.
