/newsroom/taxonomy/term/11964/all en /newsroom/channels/news/seawater-memory-keeper-energy-source-and-pollution-tracking-342845 <h6><img alt="Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia" src="/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/image/seawater-bottled.png" style="width:60%" /><br /> <i>Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia. Credit: Mike McDermid</i></h6> <h2>What can a bottle of seawater tell you about the fish living below?</h2> Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:58:01 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288427 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/viruses-can-hijack-cellular-process-block-immune-response-328652 <p>Research led by UUÖ±²¥ and Queen’s University Belfast has found that viruses can ‘hijack’ an existing molecular process in the cell in order to block the body’s antiviral immune response to a viral infection.</p> <p>The results of the study have been published in the journal <a href="https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(21)00050-2"><em>Molecular Cell</em></a><em>.</em></p> Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:25:33 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 256623 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/bacteriophages-may-play-role-childhood-stunting-and-be-able-help-treat-it-320373 <p>New research spearheaded by UUÖ±²¥ has discovered that bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) found in the intestinal tracts of children may play a role in childhood stunting, a significant impediment to growth that affects 22% of children under the age of five around the world.</p> Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:25:03 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 198445 at /newsroom