McGill scientists publish detailed picture of how nutrients and other molecules get into cells
Montreal, March 9, 2004. Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and the Montreal Proteomics Network at McGill University have published the most complete picture to date of the components of the molecular machinery that controls the entry of nutrients and other molecules into cells. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), Dr. Pet...McGill Centre for Intellectual Property Policy receives $3 million SSHRC Grant
Dean of the McGill Faculty of Law, Nicholas Kasirer, announced today that Professor E. Richard Gold and his Intellectual Property Modeling Group (IPMG) were awarded a 3 million dollar research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)*. Dr. Gold, holder of the Bell Chair in e-Governance and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP), and...MNI-McGill researcher first to discover that normal nerve cells can mimic viruses
Montreal, February 19 2003. Montreal Neurological Institute researcher Dr. Wayne Sossin has discovered that nerve cells can bypass the cells normal protein-making machinery in the same way that viruses do when they infect a cell. In a study published on-line today in Nature Neuroscience, Dr. Sossin and colleagues describe the first example of regulated IRES (internal ribosome entry site) usage a...New McGill researchers win recognition
McGill's research community has scored another triumph this summer by obtaining a record number of "New Opportunities" grants. Thirteen out of 14 applications were approved by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and range from work on HIV/AIDS and the hepatitis-C virus to speech disorders to photonic and wireless technologies. Geography professor Rene Sieber obtained the University's fir...McGill launches Centre for Bioinformatics
. . . . . May 29, 2000 - With 90% of the human genome already known and many smaller genomes sequenced in their entirety, a revolution known as bioinformatics is beginning to affect profoundly the whole of biology and medicine. To meet this challenge of the "post-genomic age" which experts say will transform our society to an extent unparalleled in historyMcGill has established a Centre.... Dopamine and somatostatin are two major neurotransmitter systems that share a number of structural and functional characteristics. Dopamine plays a crucial role in a variety of diseases such as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia and depression, and somatostatin is involved in modulating many of the actions of dopamine such as dopamine-mediated control of motor activity. Receptors for d.... . McGill University plant scientist Dr. Alan Watson and research associate Marie Ciotola in the. Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences believe they can help farmers in Africa recover. desperately needed agricultural land invaded by a noxious weed known as Striga, or witchweed. Field. trials in Mali led by the Biopesticide Research Laboratory have produced spectacular result...Major grant to aid McGill University professor's efforts to improve school science teaching
. McGill University professor, Dr. Brian Alters, has received a three-year Lucent Technologies.Foundation grant totaling $650,000 to improve the teaching of science in primary and secondary.schools. The grant is one of only eleven awarded from the 97 proposals received by the Foundation.from universities around the world. Professor Alters is Head of Science Education in the McGill.Faculty of Ed...