A vaccine could work to fight several types of cancers, including leukemia and lung cancer

Researchers say industrial sea fishing may be exposing people in coastal and island nations to excessively high levels of mercury

 IRCM and UdeM researchers explain a cell differentiation mechanism in Nature Genetics

In a new study, family meals in early childhood are found to be very beneficial on both a child's physical and mental health over the long term

A team of scientists at University of Montreal's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine has come up with a novel approach to block the transfer of resistance genes

The discovery may open the door to new ways of preventing type 2 diabetes and obesity

Chemists from Italy and Canada specializing in nanotechnology create a molecular slingshot that could shoot drugs at precise locations in the human body once triggered by specific disease markers

An international study on the genetics of human height published in Nature paves the way for precision medicine.

Anthropologists at the University of Montreal have dated the oldest human settlement in Canada back 10,000 years

Only a minority of medical studies take sex and gender into account when analyzing and reporting research results. Dr. Cara Tannenbaum demands more rigor from scientists

Bacteria in your intestines may play an important role in determining if you will develop blinding wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD)

Two young students show how maple syrup prevents the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the C. elegans worm

Researchers studied 145,456 children between the time of their conception up to age ten