Université de Montréal

Canadian researchers have identified a new role for vitamin K and gamma-carboxylation in beta cells and their potentially protective role in diabetes, achieving a first in 15 years of basic research.The discovery by scientists at…

How do Quebec-born children in mixed families with one Muslim parent self-identify? How do they combine the different values transmitted by their parents and those of the society in which they grow up?These are some of the questions that…

While human papilloma virus (HPV) is common in pregnant women, transmission from mother to baby is infrequent and the virus does not persist in infected newborns beyond six months.These are the findings of a study led by Helen Trottier, a…

Université de Montréal rector Daniel Jutras today officially opened UdeM’s new campus in Brossard. Among the guests in attendance were Quebec's minister of higher education, Pascale Déry, and Brossard mayor Doreen Assaad.Located in Solar…

Université de Montréal political science professor Laurence Deschamps-Laporte, director of the Centre for International Studies and Research, is the only academic to make The Hill Times' list of Canada's top 50 foreign-policy…

From neurological problems to hearing loss and infertility, survivors of medulloblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, are left with severe physical and cognitive impairments and have an overall mortality rate 21 times higher than…

A commonsense observation has now been scientifically demonstrated: cyclists born at high altitudes tend to perform better.That’s the finding of a Colombian study in which Mauricio Garzon took part. He’s a lecturer at Université de…

We often hear about sleep apnea in adults, but in children? Actually, pediatric obstructive sleep apnea is far from rare: 1 to 5 per cent of children are estimated to suffer from it, making it one of the most common respiratory problems…

In one year, a rare total eclipse of the Sun will occur in the afternoon and will be visible from southern Quebec. This spectacular astronomical phenomenon happens when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, completely hiding it…

To raise awareness, a research team at the Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (CR-IUSMM) has developed a virtual-reality application that replicates the challenges that autistic people can face in…