Portable device helps doctors diagnose sepsis faster

Channels McGill University News and Events A pilot study conducted by INRS and McGill researchers highlights the effect of chemotherapy on male fertility before and after puberty. "It is often thought that cancer treatments for prepubescent boys will have no effect on their fertility because their testicles would be "dormant".

Stanford researchers predict that climate change will reduce the diversity of symbiotic fungi that help trees grow. If you indulge in truffles, or porcini and chanterelle mushrooms, you have enjoyed a product of ectomycorrhizal fungi.

Herman Goossens (UAntwerp) is following the events closely to ensure health and security of European citizens. On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) China office was informed of patients infected with pneumonia of unknown aetiology in Wuhan, China[1].

A group of University of Chicago scientists has uncovered a previously unknown way that our genes are made into reality. Rather than directions going one-way from DNA to RNA to proteins, the latest study shows that RNA itself modulates how DNA is transcribed-using a chemical process that is increasingly apparent to be vital to biology.

Fully vaccinating children reduces the risk of hospitalization associated with influenza by 54%, according to a study by researchers at the University of Michigan, the Clalit Research Institute, and Ben-Gurion University in Israel.

Scientists have discovered that a non-invasive technique which could one day be used to treat Parkinson's disease, can successfully target a highly specific group of brain cells which play a key role in development of the condition.