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On March 10, the global McGill University community came together – in an entirely virtual way this year – to once again make a difference on McGill24, raising a record $3,810,861 in 24 hours during the sixth edition of the University’s…

Millions of people die prematurely every year from diseases and cancer caused by air pollution. The first line of defence against this carnage is ambient air quality standards. Yet, according to researchers from McGill University, over…

Delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccines should reduce case numbers in the near term; however, the longer term case burden and the potential for evolution of viral ‘escape’ from immunity will depend on the robustness of immune responses…

In a world as diverse as our own, the journey towards a sustainable future will look different depending on where in the world we live, according to a recent paper published in One Earth and led by McGill University, with researchers from…

Research led by McGill University and Queen’s University Belfast has found that viruses can ‘hijack’ an existing molecular process in the cell in order to block the body’s antiviral immune response to a viral infection.The results of the…

Researchers captured and took blood samples of crocodiles from several populations living on both coasts of Panama.At McGill University, researchers sequenced the genomes of crocodiles to look for small variations in their DNA.Crocodiles…

Women today represent two-thirds of all Canadian doctorates in archaeology, but only one-third of Canadian tenure-stream faculty. While men with Canadian PhDs have done well in securing tenure-track jobs in Canada over the past 15 years,…

For decades, scientists have wrestled with rival theories to explain how interactions between species, like competition, influence biodiversity. Tracking microbial life across the planet, researchers from McGill University show that…

Researchers from McGill University have discovered, for the first time, one of the possible mechanisms that contributes to the ability of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to increase social interaction. The findings, which could help…

Bubbles of methane gas in water around an unplugged oil/gas well in Pennsylvania. CREDIT: Mary KangA recent McGill study published in Environmental Science and Technology finds that annual methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas…