RI-MUHC researchers led three of the Québec Science magazine’s top 10 discoveries of 2013
Three of the top ten scientific breakthroughs of 2013 selected by Québec Science magazine were achieved by researchers from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro), and McGill University. Their work is featured in the January issue, now available on newsstands.
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Dr. Lorenzo Ferri, MUHC director of the Division of Thoracic Surgery and the Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancer Program and Dr. Jonathan Cools-Lartigue, MUHC surgical resident, identified with their team a new mode of cancer progression and showed that cells from our own immune system could act as traitors in helping cancer to spread. This scientific breakthrough represents a major change in how we think about cancer progression, and how we may treat patients in the future. Read more: http://muhc.ca/how-body-aids-spread-cancer
The first 3D atlas of the brain is now accessible to researchers worldwide, thanks to Dr. Alan Evans a researcher from the The Neuro and scientists from Germany. BigBrain – reconstructed from 7,400 brain sections – provides a close-up of the billions of neurons, or brain cells, whose properties hold the secrets of healthy and diseased brain function. Read more: http://muhc.ca/first-ever-3d-atlas
Within a team of 40 researchers, Dr. George Thanassoulis, director of Preventive and Genomic Cardiology at the MUHC, linked aortic valve disease – the third most common form of cardiovascular disease in developed countries – to a specific gene, which may result in new ways to identify and treat high-risk individuals. Read more: http://muhc.ca/most-common-form-heart