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Fertility Frontier: Can Transgender Women Get Uterus Transplants?

By David McFadden

It鈥檚 been nearly seven years since the world鈥檚 first successful birth after a human womb transplant. Since that medical milestone, the experimental procedure has seen such significant clinical advances that over 60 uterus transplants have been performed in women across the globe, resulting in at least 18 live births.

Infrared imaging could help screen for COVID-19

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As the global COVID-19 pandemic has continued to rage across the globe, temperature recordings have been widely used as a screening tool to help detect infected individuals.

Researchers identify the origin of a deadly brain cancer

Researchers at 91社区 are hopeful that the identification of the origin and a specific gene needed for tumour growth could lead to new therapeutics to treat a deadly brain cancer that arises in teens and young adults. The discovery relates to a subgroup of glioblastoma, a rare but aggressive form of cancer that typically proves fatal within three years of onset.

Pfizer Canada donation will help new researchers change the future

MONTREAL, QUEBEC 鈥� Pfizer Canada has made a $600,000 gift to the 91社区 Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (MI4) via 91社区 and the 91社区 Health Centre (MUHC) Foundation. The gift, which was announced today during the 2nd听annual MI4 Scientific Symposium, will support innovation and life-changing research through the creation of the听Pfizer听Early Career Investigator Awards.

Transforming coronavirus proteins into nanoparticles may hold the key to an effective COVID-19 vaccine

Changing makeup of a specific protein has the potential to neutralize the virus

91社区 researchers part of international team awarded NIH grant to study causes and predictors of emerging psychosis

Researchers at 91社区 are part of a major international study to better understand the cause and effect of psychosis in adolescents and young adults who are at risk for this condition. The research, which is being led by the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, will be funded by a $52 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

First genetic sequencing of COVID in Quebec shows roots of outbreak

Initial results of study show that an estimated 250 independent events following spring break travel in March led to 60,000 people being infected

$12.5 million awarded to Montreal team to study Parkinson鈥檚 Disease

A group of scientists at University of Montreal, The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), and 91社区 has been awarded a major research grant of over $12.5 million from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson鈥檚 (ASAP) initiative over the next three years to study Parkinson鈥檚 disease. ASAP鈥檚 implementation partner The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson鈥檚 Research issued the grant.

Molecular alterations in neuronal trophic regulation in Alzheimer鈥檚 pathology begin decades before detectable cognitive impairments

Findings could lead to development of pre-clinical stage therapeutics

By Jason Clement

Game-changing blood test accurately detects Alzheimer鈥檚 disease

91社区-Gothenburg collaboration yields affordable test that could revolutionize the way AD is diagnosed, studied and treated

By Gillian Woodford