TORONTO, Ontario - Precision Proteomics, a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company commercializing a novel precision medicine platform, announced its launch today. The company will focus on accelerating the development of novel diagnostics and therapeutics based on...
The importance of youth-focused mental health programs in our communities has come sharply into focus over the last several months after the recent cluster of youth suicides in Woodstock, Ontario. Researchers from Western University and Lawson Health Research...
For epilepsy patients, stress and anxiety can exacerbate their condition; increasing the frequency and severity of seizures. Until now, it was unclear why this happened and what could be done to prevent it. In a study published today in the journal Science Signaling,...
A newly published article written by Louis Charland from Western University's renowned Rotman Institute of Philosophy and his collaborators warrants caution about proposals to explicitly allow in the new Canadian federal legislation medical assistance in dying (MAID)...
For patients who suffer from Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor, writing a grocery list or taking a drink from a cup can be a daily struggle due to disabling arm tremor. Now, technology developed in London provides a personalized therapy that is giving new hope...
Neuroscientists at Western University have developed a new virtual reality 'toolbox' that can be used to build video games with a unique capacity for teaching and testing both humans and animal models. Julio Martinez-Trujillo, an associate professor in the Department...
A research team led by an award-winning genomicist at Western University has developed a new method for identifying mutations and prioritizing variants in breast and ovarian cancer genes, which will not only reduce the number of possible variants for doctors to...
