/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1039/all en /newsroom/channels/news/promising-discovery-rare-neurodegenerative-disease-356442 <p>Imagine being middle aged and starting to feel that you are off balance a lot and that you are having a hard time coordinating your movements. Those are among the symptoms of Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6, known as SCA6, a rare neurodegenerative disease which typically appears in adulthood and worsens over time. Over time, other problems such as slurred speech and difficulty seeing or seeing double, may also appear. It is estimated that fewer than 5,000 people in the US have the condition, which is the result of genetic mutations in the cerebellum.</p> Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:17:30 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 310391 at /newsroom /newsroom/simon-gravel Thu, 25 May 2023 17:15:25 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 301086 at /newsroom /newsroom/philippe-gros Wed, 03 May 2023 17:53:43 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 299131 at /newsroom /newsroom/mark-brandon Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:53:16 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 297093 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/preventing-spread-plant-pandemics-331095 <p>Plant diseases don’t stop at national borders and miles of oceans don’t prevent their spread, either. That’s why plant disease surveillance, improved detection systems, and global predictive disease modeling are necessary to mitigate future disease outbreaks and protect the global food supply, according to a team of researchers in a new commentary published in <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022239118"><i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</i></a>.</p> Mon, 17 May 2021 16:18:09 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 265897 at /newsroom /newsroom/christopher-moraes Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:22:41 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 239299 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/same-gene-can-encode-proteins-divergent-functions-258507 <p><strong><em>By Cynthia Lee, </em></strong><em><strong><a href="/newsroom">±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Newsroom</a></strong></em></p> <p>It’s not unusual for siblings to seem more dissimilar than similar: one becoming a florist, for example, another becoming a flutist, and another becoming a physicist.</p> Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:17:27 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25278 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/alzheimer-awareness-month-240926 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:10:53 +0000 raphael.larocque-cyr@mcgill.ca 21783 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-network-medical-physics-229830 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:01:06 +0000 brenda.chang@mail.mcgill.ca 18997 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-researchers-link-mutation-psychiatric-disease-218499 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:52:20 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 11971 at /newsroom