/sbms/taxonomy/term/109/all en /sbms/article/meet-atia-amin-mcgill-phd-candidate-who-setting-bar-high <p>Atia Amin, a PhD candidate in the Langlais Lab at the Department of Human Genetics and trainee at the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine, is a budding changemaker and an engine that seemingly doesn’t stop running.</p> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:04:38 +0000 Lindsay Matthews, PhD 1288 at /sbms /sbms/article/discovery-made-mcgill-umontreal-research-collaboration-named-among-top-10-year-quebec-science <p>A groundbreaking discovery made by researchers at the Université de Montréal and Â鶹ԼÅÄ has just been named one of the top 10 of the year by Québec Science magazine. </p> <p>The team found a new mechanism of genetic information exchange by which Leishmania parasites exchange DNA encoding antibiotic resistance genes via nanoscale cargo vessels called extracellular vesicles. This allows the parasites to rapidly spread resistance to treatments, causing devastating consequences in human and canine patients.  </p> Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:27:18 +0000 Christopher Fernandez-Prada 1250 at /sbms