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��Թ�’s handwritten copies of In Flanders Fields honoured as documentary heritage of outstanding value

admin — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:07:53 +0000

Four handwritten copies of John McCrae's immortal poem In Flanders Fields, held at ��Թ�’s Osler Library of the History of Medicine, were inscribed this month on the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s (CCUNESCO) Canada Memory of the World Register. The program, launched by UNESCO in 1992, recognizes documentary heritage of outstanding universal value and promotes its preservation and accessibility.

Study links early cannabis use and health problems

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:11:22 +0000

Adolescents who start using cannabis early and often are more likely to need health care for both mental and physical problems as they enter adulthood, according to a new study led by ��Թ� researchers.

What the history of the printing press can teach us about AI regulation

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:55:01 +0000

A study on the legal history of printing press regulation in early modern England yields insights relevant to contemporary debates on the regulation of emerging technologies like AI and virtual reality, a ��Թ� researcher says.

��Թ� research flags Montreal snow dump, inactive landfills as major methane polluters

admin — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:33:00 +0000

Montreal’s methane emissions are unevenly distributed across the island, with the highest concentrations in the city’s east end, ��Թ� researchers have found. The worst polluters include the city’s largest snow dump, which emits methane at levels comparable to the city's current and former landfills, and natural gas leaks.

��Թ� researchers identify bacteria that could provide an early warning of blue-green algae toxicity

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:25:34 +0000

Researchers at ��Թ� have identified bacteria that can indicate whether a blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) bloom is likely to be toxic, offering a potential water-safety early warning system. Blooms are becoming more frequent due to climate change, according to previous ��Թ� research. They can produce various contaminants, known as cyanotoxins, that pose serious health risks to humans, pets and wildlife.

New therapeutic strategies show promise against a hard-to-treat prostate cancer

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:05:40 +0000

A new study has uncovered promising therapeutic strategies against one of the deadliest forms of prostate cancer.

��Թ� researchers at the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute (GCI) identified a mechanism driving neuroendocrine prostate cancer, a rare and highly aggressive subtype for which there currently are no effective treatment options.

Smoking both cannabis and tobacco may alter brain’s ‘bliss molecule,’ study finds

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:02:41 +0000

People who use both cannabis and tobacco show distinct brain changes compared to those who use cannabis alone, according to a new study led by ��Թ� researchers at the Douglas Research Centre.

The finding may help explain why people who use both cannabis and tobacco often report increased depression and anxiety, and why quitting cannabis is harder for them than for people only using cannabis

��Թ� study shows low-grade heat from renewable sources could be used to desalinate water

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:56:35 +0000

A ��Թ�-led research team has demonstrated the feasibility of a sustainable and cost-effective way to desalinate seawater. The method – thermally driven reverse osmosis (TDRO) – uses a piston-based system powered by low-grade heat from solar thermal, geothermal heat and other sources of renewable energy to produce fresh water.

New injectable gel shows promise as voice loss treatment

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:03:59 +0000

��Թ� researchers have engineered a new hydrogel that shows early promise as a treatment for people with vocal cord injuries.

Voice loss is often permanent when scarring forms on the vocal cords. Current injectable treatments break down quickly, which can force patients to get repeated procedures that can further damage the delicate tissue.

Climate change could result in contaminant spread in the High Arctic, ��Թ� study finds

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:51:59 +0000

Warming temperatures and increased precipitation in the Canadian High Arctic are mobilizing new pathways for subsurface contaminants to spread from more than 2,500 contaminated sites associated with industrial and military sites across the region.

��Թ� study reveals knowledge gap about psychedelic therapies in adolescents

admin — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:24:17 +0000

There is a growing interest within the medical community in the use of psychedelic therapies to treat conditions ranging from depression and PTSD to anxiety and eating disorders. New research led by ��Թ� and published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health has found that while adolescents under 18 might also benefit from these types of treatments, they have been excluded from current clinical research in the field due to ethical, legal and regulatory concerns.

��Թ� team pinpoints where a type of cell death begins

admin — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:41:12 +0000

A team at ��Թ� studying ferroptosis, a form of cell death, have discovered that the process begins deep inside the cell, a finding that could lead to new treatments for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

Using antioxidant probes that light up as they are consumed, the team tracked ferroptosis in real time and identified the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) as the key cellular structure where the process first takes hold. Protecting the ER and the lysosome, they found, can halt ferroptosis entirely.

��Թ�-led team maps ‘weather’ on a nearby brown dwarf in unprecedented detail

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:55:13 +0000

Researchers at ��Թ� and collaborating institutions have mapped the atmospheric features of a planetary-mass brown dwarf, a type of space object that is neither a star nor a planet, existing in a category in-between. This particular brown dwarf’s mass, however, is just at the threshold between being a Jupiter-like planet and a brown dwarf. It has thus also been called a free-floating, or rogue, planet, not bound to a star.

Nerve injuries can affect the entire immune system, study finds

admin — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:06:47 +0000

Nerve injuries can have long-lasting effects on the immune system that appear to differ between males and females, according to preclinical research from ��Թ�.

Bilingual teenagers in Montreal exhibit writing skills on par with their French unilingual peers’, new research shows

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:01:05 +0000

��Թ� researchers who examined the writing skills of teenagers in Montreal found that the performance in French of English-French bilinguals was similar to that of near-monolingual francophones. Bilinguals were defined as teens raised in anglophone or bilingual (English-French) households and who had had significant exposure to French through attending French-language school. Further, the English writing skills of the bilingual participants were found to be on par with their French writing skills.

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Study links early cannabis use and health problems

What the history of the printing press can teach us about AI regulation

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