display Latest news from Universite de Montreal on Newswise en-us Copyright 2024 Newswise 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/do-genetic-parasites-help-the-immune-system-develop-and-function/?sc=rsin /articles/do-genetic-parasites-help-the-immune-system-develop-and-function/?sc=rsin Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:05:59 EST A study by UdeM professor Claude Perreault's team at IRIC proposes three potential functions for so-called parasite DNA sequences in T cell development. Universite de Montreal /articles/has-quebec-entered-a-new-era-of-drug-related-deaths/?sc=rsin /articles/has-quebec-entered-a-new-era-of-drug-related-deaths/?sc=rsin Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:05:23 EST For the last decade, people who use drugs in Quebec have been partially sheltered from Canada's drug overdose epidemics. But since 2020, the picture has changed. Universite de Montreal /articles/helping-your-brain-ward-off-alzheimer-s-symptoms/?sc=rsin /articles/helping-your-brain-ward-off-alzheimer-s-symptoms/?sc=rsin Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:05:15 EST Participating in a series of cognitive training sessions has helped Quebec seniors cope with memory loss - even five years later, an UdeM study finds. Universite de Montreal /articles/uncovering-the-story-behind-the-mongol-invasions-of-japan/?sc=rsin /articles/uncovering-the-story-behind-the-mongol-invasions-of-japan/?sc=rsin Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:05:06 EST When Japanese samurai repelled the Mongols, their victories were attributed to typhoons whipped up by divine forces. Now, Ph.D. candidate Jeremy Le Blanc-Gauthier is taking a fresh look at the legend. Universite de Montreal /articles/a-pandemic-of-despair/?sc=rsin /articles/a-pandemic-of-despair/?sc=rsin Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:05:56 EST The global outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 and resulting job losses led to a surge in suicidal ideation among Canadians, especially young people, a new UdeM-led study finds. Universite de Montreal /articles/an-antidiabetic-helps-the-immune-system-recognize-reservoirs-of-hiv/?sc=rsin /articles/an-antidiabetic-helps-the-immune-system-recognize-reservoirs-of-hiv/?sc=rsin Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:05:20 EST Researchers at Universite de Montreal's teaching hospital say the discovery could help lessen and even eliminate viral loads in people undergoing antiretroviral therapy. Universite de Montreal /articles/producing-artificial-stars-to-calibrate-telescopes/?sc=rsin /articles/producing-artificial-stars-to-calibrate-telescopes/?sc=rsin Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:05:54 EST Astronomy professor Jonathan Gagne will be part of the Landolt space mission, which involves solving problems caused by errors in astronomical calibrations. Universite de Montreal /articles/formation-of-the-spinal-cord-in-the-embryo-the-role-of-a-family-of-proteins-elucidated/?sc=rsin /articles/formation-of-the-spinal-cord-in-the-embryo-the-role-of-a-family-of-proteins-elucidated/?sc=rsin Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:05:49 EST The discovery of the role of β-arrestins in the formation of the spinal cord at the embryonic stage opens up perspectives for exploring the mechanisms that would allow its lesions to be repaired. Universite de Montreal /articles/found-with-webb-a-potentially-habitable-icy-world/?sc=rsin /articles/found-with-webb-a-potentially-habitable-icy-world/?sc=rsin Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:05:12 EST A team of astronomers has made an exciting discovery about the temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b: it could be a promising "super-Earth" covered in ice or water. Universite de Montreal /articles/lessons-from-the-pandemic-the-trouble-with-working-from-home/?sc=rsin /articles/lessons-from-the-pandemic-the-trouble-with-working-from-home/?sc=rsin Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:05:41 EST Remember when COVID-19 hit, and suddenly everyone was working from home? Well, a team of researchers in Montreal and Paris decided to dig deeper into how this shift affected office workers during the pandemic. Universite de Montreal /articles/brain-development-of-the-unborn-baby-a-combined-effect-of-genetics-and-food-availability/?sc=rsin /articles/brain-development-of-the-unborn-baby-a-combined-effect-of-genetics-and-food-availability/?sc=rsin Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:05:33 EST A new population study led by researcher Tomas Paus , professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Montreal and researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine, highlights the respective roles of maternal and fetal genes in the growth of the baby's cerebral cortex . Universite de Montreal /articles/allostatic-load-is-higher-in-women-in-long-term-couples/?sc=rsin /articles/allostatic-load-is-higher-in-women-in-long-term-couples/?sc=rsin Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:05:18 EST Chronic stress that develops over decades in long-term couples does not have the same effect on men as on women: the latter is more likely to display negative physiological markers than their spouse, according to a study published in the scientific journal Psychosomatic Medicine . Universite de Montreal /articles/global-study-unveils-problematic-use-of-porn/?sc=rsin /articles/global-study-unveils-problematic-use-of-porn/?sc=rsin Mon, 04 Mar 2024 12:05:19 EST Led by Universite de Montreal assistant professor Beata Bőthe, researchers explore how online pornography affects people differently around the world - not just men, but also women and non-binary people. Universite de Montreal /articles/sugar-seen-in-a-new-light-fluorescent/?sc=rsin /articles/sugar-seen-in-a-new-light-fluorescent/?sc=rsin Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:05:59 EST A research team from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Montreal has just developed new tools to study the encounter between the members of two families of biomolecules essential to life: sugars and proteins. Universite de Montreal /articles/what-dynamics-act-in-animal-migrations-and-parasitic-infections/?sc=rsin /articles/what-dynamics-act-in-animal-migrations-and-parasitic-infections/?sc=rsin Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:05:34 EST Whether to find food, reproduce, reduce competition, escape predators or escape winter, migration is a survival mechanism for many animal species. Universite de Montreal /articles/type-2-diabetes-a-new-disease-mechanism-uncovered/?sc=rsin /articles/type-2-diabetes-a-new-disease-mechanism-uncovered/?sc=rsin Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:05:02 EST Published just before World Diabetes Day, work by Dr. May Faraj, director of the Research Unit on Nutrition, Lipoproteins and Cardiometabolic Diseases at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and full professor at the Department of Nutrition at the University of Montreal, highlight a new mechanism and a new role for LDL - commonly called bad cholesterol - in the development of type 2 diabetes, LDL already being involved in cardiovascular diseases in the human. Universite de Montreal /articles/language-acquisition-may-work-differently-in-people-with-autism/?sc=rsin /articles/language-acquisition-may-work-differently-in-people-with-autism/?sc=rsin Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:30:10 EST Some children with autism may develop language skills independently of the joint attention skills usually associated with language learning. Universite de Montreal /articles/hiv-two-autopsies-reveal-where-the-virus-hides/?sc=rsin /articles/hiv-two-autopsies-reveal-where-the-virus-hides/?sc=rsin Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:05:18 EST A research team shows for the first time that HIV reservoirs are concentrated in the spleen and lymph nodes, and that they can travel throughout the body. Universite de Montreal /articles/decoding-how-molecules-talk-to-each-other-to-develop-new-nanotechnologies/?sc=rsin /articles/decoding-how-molecules-talk-to-each-other-to-develop-new-nanotechnologies/?sc=rsin Thu, 17 Aug 2023 10:35:12 EST Scientists recreate and compare molecular languages at the origin of life - opening new doors for the development of novel nanotechnologies. Universite de Montreal /articles/screening-newborns-for-bubble-baby-disease-saves-lives/?sc=rsin /articles/screening-newborns-for-bubble-baby-disease-saves-lives/?sc=rsin Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:10:05 EST Survival rates of babies after bone-marrow transplants jumped significantly after screening for SCID - severe combined immunodeficiency disease - started in North America in 2008, a major study finds. Universite de Montreal