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Scanning electromicrograph of an HIV-infected T cell. (U.S.National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Wikimedia Commons) Roux-Cil Ferreira's quest can best be described as searching for a needle in a field full of haystacks.

As a young neurology resident, Dr. Jorge Burneo was drawn to epilepsy research by two factors: its potential to improve patients' lives and to take back valuable knowledge to his native Peru, where epilepsy rates are three times higher than in Canada.

It is also inspired by something a whole lot less tangible but equally important. "This research gives families hope," said Duerden, a professor in Western's Faculty of Education and head of the Developing Brain Lab , built to study cognitive development in infants and children through behavioural assessments and brain imaging.

Giant crocodiles once roamed northeastern British Columbia. A recently published article in Historical Biology features the first detailed trace fossil evidence ever reported of giant crocodylians. The sites are from the Peace Region of northeastern British Columbia, north of Tumbler Ridge. The trace fossils include swim traces , made when the crocodiles were scraping the muddy bottoms of lakes and river channels with their claws.

Canadian youth are standing still. In fact, they're one of the most sedentary groups in society. While there's a number of research on classroom-based physical activity, very little study has been done on physical activity in adolescent classrooms.

Food waste is a growing problem in Canada and many other parts of the world - and it is only expected to get worse in the coming years.

UBER Eats Delivery Cyclist Riding Through a Busy Oxford Road in Manchester, Wikimedia Commons. To understand neo-villeiny, we first need to understand medieval villeiny.

Suspension and expulsion are used to discipline Black and Indigenous elementary and high school students more often than their peers In North American elementary and high schools, Black and Indigenous students are disciplined through suspension and expulsion more often than their peers.

A new program at Western University will offer graduate students expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning and health care and medicine.

Image of some damaged neural networks in a concussed brain. Image courtesy of Andrea Soddu, Western University A bruised leg is relatively easy to diagnose and treat, and has a predictable recovery time; a wounded brain, much less so. Now, a Western physicist-turned-neuroscientist has developed unique brain-imaging software that is helping a London, Ont., law firm strengthen the case for better support for clients with concussions.

Dr. Victor Yang dreams of building better surgical devices. Now, his journey to do just that will take place at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry , as the innovative neuroscientist and biomedical engineer joins the faculty in the department of clinical neurological sciences.

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. The rapid spread of a novel coronavirus and "alarming levels of inaction" by governments gave cause for grave concern, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said then.

Western's ground-breaking project to develop a suite of molecular profiles for complex, chronic diseases, which can potentially lead to innovative treatments, has received more than half a million do

Nature is analogue. It is not a binary system. In the living world there are no explicit switches that discreetly turn systems on or off.

Imagine a rush-hour intersection where a cellular network analyzes vehicles' motion, speed and direction and, in real time, helps drivers avoid collisions.

Robotic mushroom harvester, operating at Whitecrest Mushrooms Limited, in Putnam, Ont. (Submitted) Ten years ago, local mushroom farmer Murray Good approached engineering professor Mehrdad Kermani with a challenge. Could Kermani and his team develop an autonomous mushroom harvesting robot to address the labour shortage Good and mushroom farmers around the world were facing? Kermani, a world leader in the field of safe human-robot interactions , wasn't sure at first.

Basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus, the 2nd largest fish in the sea, feeding by straining plankton through gill rakers, off Land's End, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

New research from Western University shows the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the struggles Syrian refugees in Canada face in finding adequate housing, and highlights the need for policies to keep

A new North American study has found over-the-counter medications are just as effective as opioids for patient pain management following carpal tunnel surgery.

Let's face it: When most of us see the temperature outside fall to minus double digits, our first instinct isn't to gleefully run outside.

Beyond the Olympic's facade of glitz, glamour and gold there's a glaring and controversial regulation - the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Rule 50 .

International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland (Photo source: IOC/Greg Martin) With the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games about to begin, there are many debates occurring in th

A Western University study shows that, even in northern climates, combining residential solar power with heat pumps can be a profitable investment.

As the COVID-19 crisis continues around the world, public health and infectious disease experts at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry are pushing for global vaccine equity to end the pandemic.

A new report from Western's Network for Economics and Social Trends (NEST), in partnership with Pathways to Prosperity , paints an in-depth portrait of the serious legal problems and disputes immigrants face in their community and provides recommendations for newcomers to Canada seeking assistance.

Social contact-based education helps reduce mental health stigma by bringing individuals living with mental illness into a safe, enabling environment where they can share their stories with others.

Social contact-based education helps reduce mental health stigma by bringing individuals living with mental illness into a safe, enabling environment where they can share their stories with others.

The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) position on refugees is contradictory and confusing. The organization has its own Refugee Team competing at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

A large hailstone, about 6 cm in diameter (Photo credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory Collection) The Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) is changing the way researchers investigate and predict tornadoes and mitigate their damage in Canada.

The VIRTUES platform, developed by the team at CANet, enables health-care providers to monitor and manage patients' conditions remotely.

On Jan. 15, a tsunami warning went out to residents of British Columbia and the west coast of the United States.

If a new report from the Financial Wellness Lab of Canada at Western University is any indication, moving from a financially stressed situation to a more comfortable level in a relatively short period of time may not be an impossible feat.

Metal corrosion - in large steel bridges, computer microchips and medical nanoparticles, for example - cost billions of dollars in damage.

The climate change crisis and the push for sustainable technologies are driving the work of five engineering professors and their research teams at Western's Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Resources ( ICFAR ).

Cities emerged as the epicentres of the COVID-19 pandemic: roughly 90 per cent of COVID-19 infections worldwide were reported in urban settings.

With pandemic school closures in place in Ontario, Québec , Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island until Jan.

Malaria is the leading cause of death among young people in Uganda. (Photo by Shelagh Murphy/Pexels) Western professor Ian Cunningham is working to help people in Uganda have better access to life-saving testing and early diagnosis of malaria.

Every January, millions of individuals make New Year's resolutions to lose weight or eat healthier, if not both.

Western University will lead the way in developing Canada's first nation-wide phone app to help women facing violence in the home.

"This image is a composite of nine wide-angle photos of the biggest clean room at NASA Goddard when the uncovered flight primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope was tilted into a vertical position.

Municipal staff in Zorra Township are so satisfied with a four-day work week that almost three-quarters of them would like to extend the innovative experiment.