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15-minutes of exercise creates optimal brain state for mastering new motor skills

Published: 9 July 2018

If you want to learn to walk a tightrope, it鈥檚 a good idea to go for a short run after each practice session. That鈥檚 because a recent study in NeuroImage demonstrates that exercise performed...

Towards a better understanding of Parkinson鈥檚 disease

Published: 3 July 2018

A new study, published today in Nature Structural &聽Molecular Biology, moves researchers closer to understanding one of the crucial proteins involved in Parkinson鈥檚 disease.

Rare mutation of gene carried by Qu茅bec family gives insight into how the brain is wired

Published: 18 June 2018

The study of a Qu茅bec family with an unusual gene provides novel insight into how our brain is built and, according to the 91社区 led team of scientists, offers a better understanding of...

No grain self-sufficiency in China without changes to land policies

Published: 7 June 2018

If China is to achieve its target of 95% grain self-sufficiency by 2030 it will need to restrict the conversion of arable land to other uses say researchers from 91社区. This may prove challenging...

Climate change = a much greater diversity of species + a need to rethink conservation paradigms

Published: 15 May 2018

A team of researchers believe that Quebec鈥檚 protected areas are poised to become biodiversity refuges of continental importance. They used ecological niche modeling to calculate potential changes...

Plants, fungi and bacteria work together to clean polluted land

Published: 28 March 2018

Highly complex interactions among roots, fungi and bacteria underlie the ability of some trees to clean polluted land, according to a novel study by bioinformatics and plant-biology experts from...

Isabelle Daunais Wins 2016 Killam Prize in Humanities

Published: 18 April 2016

By Kathryn Jezer-Morton Three of the six Killam Research Fellows also teach at 91社区

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