McGill University

New technology developed by a team of McGill University scientists shows potential to streamline the analysis of proteins, offering a quick, high volume and cost-effective tool to hospitals and research labs alike.

Aug 13, 2018 in Nanophysics

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Researchers at McGill University have discovered a mechanism by which helical biomineral structures can be synthesized to spiral clockwise or counterclockwise using only either the left-handed or right-handed version of a ...

Aug 01, 2018 in Plants & Animals

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A new type of "lab on a chip" developed by McGill University scientists has the potential to become a clinical tool capable of detecting very small quantities of disease-causing bacteria in just minutes.

Jul 30, 2018 in Bio & Medicine

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Your child is in elementary school and is begging you to buy them a cell phone, an iPod and iPad. Anything, as long as they can communicate with their friends, either by texting or through social media. As a parent, you're ...

Jul 26, 2018 in Social Sciences

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A sample of ancient oxygen, teased out of a 1.4 billion-year-old evaporative lake deposit in Ontario, provides fresh evidence of what the Earth's atmosphere and biosphere were like during the interval leading up to the emergence ...

Jul 18, 2018 in Earth Sciences

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A team of researchers believe that, paradoxically, climate change may result in Quebec's national and provincial parks becoming biodiversity refuges of continental importance as the variety of species present there increases. ...

May 16, 2018 in Ecology

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A new method for projecting how the temperature will respond to human impacts supports the outlook for substantial global warming throughout this century—but also indicates that, in many regions, warming patterns are likely ...

May 15, 2018 in Environment

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New research shows how and where tungsten accumulates in bones of mice exposed to the element through drinking water. The findings, by a team of chemists and biologists at McGill University, could add to doubts over the once-universal ...

Apr 17, 2018 in Biochemistry

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How is it that fertilized chicken eggs manage to resist fracture from the outside, while at the same time, are weak enough to break from the inside during chick hatching? It's all in the eggshell's nanostructure, according ...

Mar 30, 2018 in Nanomaterials

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Highly complex interactions among roots, fungi and bacteria underlie the ability of some trees to clean polluted land, according to a novel study by bioinformatics and plant-biology experts from McGill University and Université ...

Mar 28, 2018 in Cell & Microbiology

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