Student /newsroom/taxonomy/term/3533/all en New understanding of how muscles work /newsroom/channels/news/new-understanding-how-muscles-work-269759 <p>Muscle malfunctions may be as simple as a slight strain after exercise or as serious as heart failure and muscular dystrophy. A new technique developed at º£½ÇÉçÇø now makes it possible to look much more closely at how sarcomeres, the basic building blocks within all skeletal and cardiac muscles, work together. It’s a discovery that should advance research into a wide range of muscle malfunctions.</p> <p><strong>Talk about finicky work</strong></p> Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:24:05 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32196 at /newsroom Playing with your brain /newsroom/channels/news/playing-your-brain-269271 <p>Human-computer interactions, such as playing video games, can have a negative impact on the brain, says a new Canadian study published in <em>Molecular Psychiatry</em>. For over 10 years, scientists have told us that action video game players exhibit better visual attention, motor control abilities and short-term memory. But, could these benefits come at a cost?</p> Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:31:22 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32143 at /newsroom Gene discovered to cause rare, severe neurological disease /newsroom/channels/news/gene-discovered-cause-rare-severe-neurological-disease-264507 <p>Researchers have linked a debilitating neurological disease in children to mutations in a gene that regulates neuronal development through control of protein movement within neuronal cells. </p> Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:13:15 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26446 at /newsroom Quebec ecology student scoops trio of BES photo prizes /newsroom/channels/news/quebec-ecology-student-scoops-trio-bes-photo-prizes-257288 <p><span>PhD candidate Kiyoko Gotanda captured the award-winning photos on her Canon 7D Mark II camera while on a research trip to Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos in January 2015.</span></p> <p>The Galápagos Islands inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution almost 150 years ago and have since been crucial to evolutionary biology, including to Gotanda’s own research on Darwin’s Galápagos finches. </p> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:55:57 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 25030 at /newsroom