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Trees play a big role in how children in cities develop asthma. But it’s not as simple as “more trees equals less asthma." It depends on the season: trees decrease the risk of developing asthma during the leafy season but increase the…

Diabetes can lead to eye problems, and a common one is diabetic macular edema (DME), causing vision loss. Now a study published in Nature Medicine suggest a new experimental drug could someday help make treatment of DME more successful…

A new wind of innovation is blowing through the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Université de Montréal thanks to a donation of $2 million from the Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation. This financial support will go towards…

The idea of injecting microscopic robots into the bloodstream to heal the human body is not new. It's also not science fiction. Guided by an external magnetic field, miniature biocompatible robots, made of magnetizable iron oxide…

At a time of worldwide concerns over climate change, growing social inequality, the rise of AI, political polarization and new diseases, Université de Montréal is launching L’heure est brave, the most ambitious giving campaign in its…

A new population-based study led by CHU Sainte-Justine researcher and Université de Montréal medical professor Tomas Paus reveals the roles of maternal and fetal genes in the growth of a baby’s cerebral cortex. Published last week in…

The chronic stress that builds up over decades in a relationship affects each member of the couple differently; in heterosexual couples, the woman is more likely to display negative physiological markers than her spouse. That's the…

Université de Montréal has entered into a strategic partnership with Konan Technology Inc., an artificial-intelligence company based in Seoul, South Korea, to advance the field of reinforcement learning. The collaboration, led at…

Next spring, 300 global scholars in psychology and others engaged in longitudinal research on a number of aspects of human development will come together in Montreal for the 26th biennial conference of the Life History Research Society…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already present in our healthcare system, to varying degrees. The problem is that it’s mostly being used by individual care and research units operating independently of each other. According to…