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An interdisciplinary team of Թ researchers has developed an ultra-strong, environmentally friendly medical glue, or bioadhesive, made from marine waste. The discovery has promising applications for wound care, surgeries, improved drug delivery, wearable devices and medical implants. 

“Being able to produce glues that can close wounds  or make something strongly adhere to the skin is critical for many medical interventions,” said Audrey Moores, Professor in the Department of Chemistry.  

Classified as: Audrey Moores, Jianyu Li, bioadhesives
Published on: 31 Jul 2025

Algal growth is accelerating in lakes across Canada, including those far from human development, and a new study shows that climate change is the primary driver. 

Classified as: Irene Gregory-Eaves, invasive species, Biology
Published on: 31 Jul 2025

Modern medicine is largely reactive—treating illness only after symptoms emerge. But a new study from the Research Institute of the Թ Health Centre (The Institute) and Թ points to a more proactive future: one where silent signs of infection are detected before we even feel sick.

Classified as: Research Institute of the Թ Health Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Published on: 30 Jul 2025

Researchers have developed a novel method to detect and study how ice forms in mixed-phase clouds, significantly boosting scientists’ ability to forecast weather and model climate change. 

Classified as: Faculty of Science
Published on: 23 Jul 2025

Drawing on a landmark 25-year study that followed Quebec children into adulthood, Թ researchers have identified two distinct patterns in how suicidal thoughts emerge and the early signs that are often missed.

Suicidal thoughts are increasingly common among youth, but how they begin and what mental health symptoms often precede them are poorly understood, the researchers said.

Classified as: marie-claude geoffroy, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Published on: 23 Jul 2025

Researchers who explored how consumers’ ethical values can shape their shopping habits suggest that business owners from marginalized racial groups can appeal to socially conscious consumers by highlighting their identity, helping promote racial equity through values-driven purchasing.

Classified as: Desautels Faculty of Management
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Published on: 22 Jul 2025

Fragments of ancient viral DNA once dismissed as “junk” may play a role in controlling our genes, according to a new international study.

Using a novel method to trace the evolutionary history of viral DNA, researchers from Թ and Kyoto University uncovered sequences that had been overlooked in earlier genome annotations.

Classified as: Guillaume Bourque, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, DNA analysis, evolution
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Published on: 21 Jul 2025

Researchers have shed new light on the most common genetic variant linked to hereditary cancer in Quebec’s French-Canadian population. Their findings could result in cheaper and more effective screening methods.

The variant is associated with Lynch syndrome, a condition that greatly increases the risk of colorectal and other cancers.

Classified as: Research Institute of the Թ Health Centre, Թ, William Foulkes, simon gravel
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Published on: 17 Jul 2025

Farmers who exchanged text messages with peers were significantly more likely to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, highlighting the power of peer learning in digital formats, a new co-authored by Թ Professor Aurélie Harou found.

Published on: 16 Jul 2025

A new study by Թ researchers shows that chronic pain, often invisible to medical tests, can be better assessed when doctors take a holistic approach.

By combining biological data with information about patients’ mental health, sleep and stress, the researchers say they were able to create a fuller picture of chronic pain. They said their findings, published in Nature Human Behaviour, stand to improve how the condition is diagnosed and treated.

Classified as: Etienne Vachon-Presseau, chronic pain, Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain
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Published on: 15 Jul 2025

A ground-breaking study conducted by researchers from Թ, the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (LDI) at the Jewish General Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and MIT has identified a novel approach to combat aggressive breast cancers by retraining neutrophils, the body’s first responders, to directly kill tumour cells. This research offers new hope for patients with breast cancers that do not respond well to existing immunotherapies. 

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Published on: 14 Jul 2025

A team of Թ researchers, working with colleagues in the United States and South Korea, a new way to make high-performance lithium-ion battery materials that could help phase out expensive and/or difficult-to-source metals like nickel and cobalt.

Classified as: Jinhyuk Lee
Published on: 11 Jul 2025

Trained immunity – a process being explored in vaccine and therapy development to boost immune defences – appears be counterproductive in certain contexts, researchers at Թ and the Research Institute of the Թ Health Centre (The Institute) have found.

Trained immunity is when the body’s first line of defence remembers past threats and becomes more reactive, responding more strongly to future infections even if they are different, by changing how immune cells behave.

Classified as: Maziar Divangahi, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Research Institute of the Թ Health Centre, Department of Medicine, lungs, vaccine development
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Published on: 10 Jul 2025

Women now make up over half of medical students in Canada, but only one-third of practising surgeons. A new study suggests part of the gap stems from gender norms embedded in workplace culture. The researchers at Թ say subtle but persistent biases may be driving women out of the field.

Classified as: surgery, workplace culture, gender, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Published on: 10 Jul 2025

Women who see themselves as having lower social status are more likely than other people to show early signs of heart stress linked to future disease risk, according to a new study led by researchers at Թ and Concordia universities.

Classified as: judy luu, heart health, women’s heart health, Cardiology
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Published on: 2 Jul 2025

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