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Quebec scientists have succeeded in isolating infectious particles of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from air samples collected from hospital rooms of COVID-19 patients and kept frozen for more than a year, a new study shows.The research was done…

As you walk along the streets of Montreal, you'll pass churches turned into condos, spas, university buildings, libraries and more. Quebec, it might seem, is a secular society born of the Quiet Revolution in which native-born Québécois…

The scientific literature has repeatedly shown health gaps between lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) and heterosexual people.In 2020, for instance, Statistics Canada reported that members of the LGB community were three times more likely to…

Until now, the scientific community did not know exactly when or how these viral reservoirs—the existence of which is a major obstacle to curing HIV—are established in human beings.In a study published in the journal Immunity, scientists…

Interdisciplinary support groups (ISGs) exist to help health-care teams that offer medical assistance in dying (MAiD). But even though ISGs were introduced in Quebec in 2016, their mandates and services still aren’t well-known.And…

Dominique Tremblay and Élie Boghossian, plastic surgeons at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital (MRH) and researchers at Université de Montréal's Faculty of Medicine, have developed a new approach to nerve transfer that consists of moving…

The University of Montreal and its partners have been awarded a $2 million grant from the Canada Biomedical Research Fund to create the Eastern Canada Pandemic Preparedness Hub. A total of five hubs are being created across Canada to…

Moutih Rafei heads a research project in collaboration with the Jewish General Hospital that has just been awarded over $1.3 million in funding from the non-profit biopharmaceutical research consortium CQDM through Quebec Ministry of…

To understand how plants respond to and influence their environments, ecologists often use a series of standardized measurements called functional traits. For example, a plant’s capacity to do photosynthesis is influenced by traits like…

"Every act of creation," Picasso famously noted, "is first an act of destruction." Taking this concept literally, researchers in Canada have now discovered that "breaking" molecular nanomachines basic to life can create new ones that work…