Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal professor Nabil G. Seidah has been awarded one of Canada's most prestigious medical research prizes: Western University's J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine.A researcher at the Montreal Clinical…

Two molecular languages at the origin of life have been successfully recreated and mathematically validated, thanks to pioneering work by Canadian scientists at Université de Montréal.Published this week in the Journal of American…

Wearing masks, social-distancing, staying home: those preventive measures were least likely to be followed by Canadians who were least informed about how best to stop the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic. That's the conclusion of a…

UdeM pharmacy professor Anick Bérard will use her $840,000 grant over four years to set up a hub aimed at reducing gender inequalities in reproductive health care.Université de Montréal pharmacy professor Anick Bérard is the new…

Screening newborns for severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) significantly increases the survival of children after bone marrow transplantation, a new North American study finds.Published on June 20 in The Lancet with an…

Université de Montréal and its affiliated schools, HEC Montréal and Polytechnique Montréal, placed 141th among the world's top universities in the latest QS World University Rankings. QS evaluated 2,963 universities worldwide and included…

An Australian research team investigating the trade in wild animals and plants on the dark web scanned about 2 million ads over five years and found nearly 3,500 were for wildlife. In all, over 150 species were for sale, and about 90 per…

In early June, 2023, 39 participants from 20 countries gathered at Mila – Quebec AI Institute in Montreal to attend the very first Summer School in Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Rights.During the week-long event,…

Mitochondrial DNA, with its relatively small number of base pairs (around 16,000 compared with 3 billion in nuclear DNA), was sequenced almost 45 years ago. “Once mitochondrial DNA was sequenced, it didn’t take long to go through it,”…

Université de Montréal announced today that it will significantly reduce its advertising on the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, both owned by the firm Meta. This decision comes at a time when Meta has announced its…