Reading Time: 2 minutesImagine visiting a doctor who doesn’t speak your language fluently. Now imagine trying to explain your symptoms, understand medical advice, and make important health decisions, all through a language barrier. Frustrating, right? Beyond just being frustrating, it turns out that language barriers in medical environments could have detrimental effects on heart health.
Reading Time: 3 minutes These bio-innovators are growing Ozempic in plants. This group of individuals in synthetic biology isn’t just playing around in the lab; rather, they are changing the way we approach medicine, research, and even space exploration.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn a groundbreaking study spanning over two decades, a research team led by U of O faculty has reconstructed the history of the Thule people — the ancestors of modern-day Inuit people — and revised the timeline of human occupation of the Arctic.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMinister of Families, Children and Social Development of Canada Jenna Sudds has announced 11.8 million in funding for the U of O and McMaster, who lead the Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Hub
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Sleep deprivation already changes something even before you realize that,” said U of O Professor Zhou Fang.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“Conventional panels have historically been deployed for the last 30 years. However, recently there has been more and more interest in bifacial technologies due to its gaining traction in the market. ” said U of O researcher Erin Tonita.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA study led by U of O professor Odette Laneuville (PhD) suggests that astronauts have a weakened immune system while in the extreme conditions of space.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOttawa-Vanier MP Mona Fortier announced the awarding of a $109 million grant for the University of Ottawa’s new Brain-Heart Interconnectome research project, one of the largest awarded grants in the University’s history.
Reading Time: 6 minutesDr. Clifford Cassidy a professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Ottawa in addition to being a member at the Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research. He’s interested in neuroimaging methods to understand brain mechanisms of psychopathology, which broadly refers to the study of mental disorders.
The Fulcrum sat down with Dr. Cassidy to discuss his 2022 study recently published in neuropharmacology in more detail.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe industry is looking to expand whale detection capability outwards, Hodul is in the process of developing the system for detecting whales and then the policymakers are going to use the tool to be able to reroute ships and fishing gear.
Reading Time: 5 minutesTo better understand the effects nanoplastics and other contaminants like flame retardants may exhibit on either the environment or the living organisms that inhabit it, the fulcrum spoke with U of O professor Jan Mennigen
Reading Time: 5 minutesHow are amphibious centipedes able to walk and swim? How are they able to coordinate their bodies as they transition from land to water or vice-versa?
Reading Time: 4 minutesAre you troubled by strange noises in the middle of the night? Do you experience feelings of dread before or during your studies? Have you or any of your family ever seen a math-anxious student? If you’ve answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, don’t wait another minute: pick up the phone and call the professionals.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe researchers observed improvement in cardiac function and electrical signal conduction in the mice that were given the spray, and the results were able to be replicated in repeated experiments.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe bison have been experiencing a change in their habitat, the shallow lakes whose shores they depend on for their nutrition have been expanding, making the habitat unfit for the Mackenzie herd.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere’s a causal mechanism happening during hibernation which would result in faster ageing occurring at the DNA level during active periods and a plateau or slower ageing during the hibernating months.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“More toxic doesn’t mean the other one’s not toxic. So at environmental levels, the chemicals in the Alberta oil sands would cause similar problems. These are not safe chemicals by any imagination. They’re just less toxic than the other ones,” said U of O professor Vance Trudeau.
Reading Time: 4 minutesRove beetles happen to be the largest group of animals that exist however, they remain as one the most understudied.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis finding disrupts any preconceived notions that Pleistocene wolves were located at bottom of the carnivore levels.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“There’s already so much research on bees and butterflies, which is a good thing but I think it’s also a good thing to study under underrepresented groups,” said U of O PhD candidate Catherine Sirois-Delisle.
Reading Time: 4 minutesRetrogressive thaw slumps (RTS) occurring in the arctic are largely at the mercy of changing summer climates
Reading Time: 4 minutesU of O professor Andra Smith has published a study looking into the impacts of early oral contraceptive use on brain development, structure, and function in users
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week Pamenter interviewed with the Fulcrum to explain the mechanism that describes how mole rats decrease their body temperature in hypoxia
Reading Time: 4 minutesMallon discusses what to expect at a dig, dino myths and why dinos were so big Jordan Mallon is a research scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature here in Ottawa. He mainly studies horned dinosaur evolution and dinosaur paleoecology which is the study of past ecology. This week Mallon interviewed with the Fulcrum to …
Reading Time: 2 minutes“We really wanted to address a grassroots problem and from our experience, and myself interacting with physicians and residents in primary care, it came to our attention that the unattached patient is really a big issue in our community.” Said Maddie Venables.
