Musculoskeletal conditions such as arthritis, skeletal fractures, back pain, and sports or work-related injuries are debilitating and painful for millions of Canadians and billions of people worldwide. The number of people affected is steadily growing and expected to...
A team of astronomers from Western University's Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX) and the Carnegie Institution for Science has discovered one of the youngest and brightest free-floating, planet-like objects within relatively close proximity to the...
Follow your heart because a new study from Western University shows that your memories already do. Investigators at Western's renowned Brain and Mind Institute have discovered that signals from inside your body can affect memories. The findings were recently published...
Dr. Peeyush Lala from Western University is a pioneer in the study and treatment of tumors. During his landmark career, the Professor Emeritus and Past Chair of Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry's Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology has identified many...
Today Brian Porter, President and CEO of Scotiabank, spoke to Ivey Business School students at Western University about driving the Bank’s digital strategy and announced $3 million in funding to create the Scotiabank Digital Banking Lab at the Ivey Business School....
A Western University researcher is hoping to change the lives of people in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda with a small sachet of freeze-dried bacteria. Gregor Reid, PhD, professor, Western’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, is one of the world’s foremost...
An internationally renowned wife-and-husband team of cognitive neuroscientists have joined Western University after collaborating on game-changing research for the past 15 years at the University of Cambridge. Tim Bussey and Lisa Saksida specialize in understanding...
For more than three million Canadians suffering from osteoarthritis, getting out of bed in the morning or opening a jar can be a serious challenge. The disease, which results in degeneration of bones and joints, has a very human face, causing severe pain and...
As the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched a space probe early this morning from the Russian Kosmodrom in Baikonur, Kazakhstan to study trace gases in the Martian atmosphere, a planetary scientist from Western University...
If you watch science fiction movies from 1970s, you would think by the year 2016 there would be a robot in every home performing tasks like cooking, cleaning and cutting the lawn. But there isn't. Jörn Diedrichsen, who has come to Western University from University...
According to a study completed at Western University, obese women in the Canadian workforce earn less money than non-obese women. Sisira Sarma, PhD, and his team from Western’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, analyzed data on adults, 18 to 53 years old,...
An innovative, new approach to delivering community-based end-of-life care – developed and piloted by South West Community Care Access Centre and being evaluated by Western researchers – is now being used by a palliative care centre in the United Kingdom. St. Luke's...
