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Using laser light to study how epilepsy arises in the healthy brain

Published: 27 March 2019

Scientists at º«¹úÂãÎè have developed a new method to study how seizures arise in the healthy brain. Using laser light guided through ultra-thin optic fibers in the brain of rodents, the...

THE NEW YORK TIMES | Three Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence Win Turing Award

Published: 27 March 2019

Backed by the Canadian government, Dr. Hinton, a computer science professor at the University of Toronto, organized a new research community with several academics who also tackled the concept....

CBC NEWS | Indigenous, LGBTQ people disproportionately homeless, Quebec survey finds

Published: 26 March 2019

º«¹úÂãÎè Prof. Eric Latimer, the lead researcher on this project, said the two surveys can't be directly compared given their different approaches....

Anti-TB drugs can increase risk of TB re-infection

Published: 22 March 2019

Current treatments for tuberculosis (TB) are very effective in controlling TB infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). They don’t, however, always prevent reinfection. Why this happens...

Bartha Knoppers awarded 2019 Friesen Prize

Published: 19 March 2019

º«¹úÂãÎè Professor Bartha Knoppers, a global leader in the study of legal, social and ethical issues related to biomedical research in human genetics and genomics, has been awarded the...

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | A Common Anesthetic Could Ease PTSD and Other Stress Disorders

Published: 22 March 2019

Alain Brunet of º«¹úÂãÎè in Montreal has done extensive research on propranolol and says it has now been proven in a randomized clinical trial he published last year that propranolol is...

RADIO-CANADA INTERNATIONAL | Do media need to scale down coverage of mass murders?

Published: 21 March 2019

Whenever a tragedy of such horrific proportions occurs as the recent New Zealand killings, the media flock to the site and begin massive coverage. [...] Robert Whitley (PhD) is a professor of...

WIRED | Women's pain is different from men's- The drugs could be too

Published: 20 March 2019

This represents the first direct human evidence that pain seems to be as sex-dependent in its underlying biology in humans as we have been suggesting for a while now, based on experiments in mice,"...

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