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A new mechanism regulates type I interferon production in white blood cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study from a team of researchers led by Dr. Andrew P. Makrigiannis, Director of the Molecular Immunology Research Unit at the IRCM, has identified a new mechanism regulating interferon production. This discovery, co-authored ...





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Identification of a key molecular pathway required for brain neural circuit formation

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The research group of Dr. Frédéric Charron, a researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), has made a discovery which could help treat spinal cord injuries and neurodegenerative ...


Important advance in the treatment of cancer and viral infections

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Dr. André Veillette, a researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), and his team led by postdoctoral fellow Dr. Mario-Ernesto Cruz-Munoz, will publish in the upcoming issue of the prestigious ...


Motor nerve targeting to limb muscles is controlled by ephrin proteins

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 24, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Montréal, December 24, 2008 - A study from a team of researchers including Dr. Artur Kania, Director of the Neural Circuit Development Research Unit at the IRCM, and Dr. Dayana Krawchuk, postdoctoral fellow, shows ...


A scientific breakthrough on the control of the bad cholesterol

Chemistry /

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 0

A study performed by the team of Dr. Nabil G. Seidah, Director of the Biochemical Neuroendocrinology Research Unit at the IRCM, shows for the very first time that the degradation by PCSK9 of the LDLR receptor, which is responsible ...


A key mechanism regulating neural stem cell development is uncovered

Biology /

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A research team at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), funded by the Foundation Fighting Blindness – Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), discovered a novel mechanism that regulates ...


The Schiavo case: Are mass media to be blamed?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 4

In 1990, Theresa Schiavo, an American citizen, had a cardiac arrest that caused irreversible brain damage which led to a persistent vegetative state diagnosis. A few years later, this diagnosis became a source of conflict ...


Genetic breakthrough supercharges immunity to flu and other viruses

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 13, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 0

Researchers at McGill University have discovered a way to boost an organism’s natural anti-virus defences, effectively making its cells immune to influenza and other viruses.


Major breakthrough in understanding how HIV interferes with infected cell division

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jul 13, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dr. Éric A. Cohen, a researcher at the IRCM (Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal), and his team will publish on Friday, July 13, in PLoS Pathogens a discovery that could lead to the development of a new class of dru ...


Quantum cascade diode laser could be vital for safeguarding aircraft

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 01, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (23) | comments 0

Terrorists can strike anywhere, at any time, and aircraft, both military and civilian, are targets for heat-seeking missiles, one of many tactics in use by groups hostile to the United States.


Researchers map 'gene switches' within the human genome

Other Sciences /

created Apr 10, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers have released a "map" of regions in the human genome that work as "switches" for turning genes on and off. The discovery, made by researchers from McGill University, the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal ...



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