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McGill University

Type: Organization

Name: McGill University

Nationality: Canada

Web Address: http://www.mcgill.ca/

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for McGill University

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 3 hours ago - 3 reports

Could life exist on Mars?

The question of whether life is or ever existed on Mars remains unknown. However, scientists have shown that bacteria isolated from the Arctic could survive under Martian conditions. Researchers based at McGill University in Montreal have discovered a ... [Published Digital Journal - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Bacteria, Permafrost, Microbiologist, McGill University, Microbe

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Calcium Said to Lower Mortality Rate in Women

Charlene J. Owen, ContributorPrint EmailTweet Calcium may do more than just keep your bones healthy. By Charlene J. OwenCalcium has been known to strengthen teeth and bones, but a study featured on ScienceDaily.com reports that it may also help women ... [Published Female Network - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Calcium, Supplement, McGill University, Osteoporosis

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

An offering for religious understanding

About a year ago, Barbara and Patrick Keenan had decided to make a $5-million donation to McGill University but they weren’t sure how the money should be spent. Then Ms. Keenan recalled an elective course she took during her second year at McGill. “It ... [Published Globe and Mail - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Religion, Patrick Keenan, United Church of Canada

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

McGill's Judith Butler Bungle

When I first heard that McGill University, my university, was awarding Professor Judith Butler an honorary doctorate, I winced, quietly. Butler is a caustic critic of Israel, with a blind spot for terrorist totalitarians. Nevertheless, I acknowledge that ... [Published Daily Beast - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Judith Butler, McGill University, Anti-Israel, Israel

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

McGill University

Bacterium from Canadian High Arctic Offers Clues to Possible Life on Mars

The temperature in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic is nearly as cold as that of the surface of Mars. So the recent discovery by a McGill University led team of scientists of a bacterium that is able to thrive at –15ºC, the ... [Published ScienceNewsline - May 23 2013]

Entities: Bacteria, Permafrost, McGill University

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 2 reports

Cyclone Power and McGill University to advance solid fuel combustion systems for micro-sized power units

Cyclone Power Technologies, developer of the all-fuel, external combustion Cyclone Engine, and McGill University of Québec, Canada have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop alternative solid fuel combustion systems for micro-sized power ... [Published Green Car Congress - May 24 2013]

Entities: Combustion, Cyclone Power Technologies Inc, McGill University

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Fundraising campaign to reach target for new Shriners Hospital for Children

A $130-million fundraising campaign to help raise money for the construction of the new - Canada has reached just over $111 million, according to fundraising co-chair Richard Renaud.Approximately $127 million of the money raised from the Exceptional Care ... [Published Daily Commercial News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Fundraising, Construction, musculoskeletal, McGill University

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Studies from McGill University Health Center Yield New Data on Breast Cancer

(NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Investigators publish new report on Breast Cancer. According to news originating from Montreal, Canada, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "TGF-ß plays an important role ... [Published NewsRX - May 24 2013]

Entities: McGill University, Breast Cancer, yield

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Calcium Can Help Women Live Longer, McGill University Study

Staying up-to-date has never been simpler. Sign up for the today! Taking a calcium supplement of up to 1,000 mg per day can help women live longer, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology ... [Published BioSpace - May 23 2013]

Entities: Calcium, McGill University, Supplement, Nutrients

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 4 reports

Arctic bacteria discovered breeding at record –15 C

Bacteria that can live and multiply in High Arctic permafrost at temperatures well below the freezing point of water have been discovered by a Canadian-led team of researchers, offering clues about the types of organisms that might exist in similar extreme ... [Published Newsvine - May 23 2013]

Entities: Permafrost, Bacteria, Reproducibility, Organism

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Daily dose of calcium helps women live longer

Washington, May 23 (ANI): Taking a calcium supplement of up to 1,000 mg per day can help women live longer, according to a research.The study conducted by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), found that daily use of ... [Published TruthDive - May 23 2013]

Entities: Calcium, Supplement, Vitamin D, Mortality

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Barbara Kay: McGill seeks to ‘enhance its reputation’ by awarding honorary doctorate to divisive ideologue

Universities must be careful in the awarding of honorary doctorates. What seems like a safe choice at the time can come back to haunt a university later. Sometimes even five minutes later. McGill University will be awarding philosopher and gender theorist ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - May 23 2013]

Entities: Judith Butler, Barbara Kay, McGill University, Israel

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...Commenting on what was found, Whyte said in a statement: "We believe that this bacterium lives in very thin veins of very salty water. The salt in the permafrost brine veins keeps the water from freezing at the ambient permafrost temperature (~-16ºC), creating a habitable but very harsh environment. t’s not the easiest place to survive but this organism is capable of remaining active (i e. breathing) to at least -25ºC." The finding in no way indicates that there is life on Mars, but it does show that a bacterium could, in theory, survive on the red planet...

Could life exist on Mars? [Published Digital Journal - 3 hours ago]

Study lead author David Goltzman of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, notes, "The benefit was seen for women who took doses of up to 1,000 mg per day... Higher amounts of calcium were potentially linked to longer lifespans in women, regardless of the source of the calcium."

Calcium Said to Lower Mortality Rate in Women [Published Female Network - 11 hours ago]

Still, Whyte calls the bacterium "our cold temperature champion," adding "what we can learn from this microbe may tell us a lot about how similar microbial life may exist elsewhere in the solar system."

Cold-loving bacteria offer clues for life on Mars [Published NBCNews.com - 18 hours ago]

"There is probably something that survived the trip from Earth on one of our rovers," he says. "They may be stuck on the rover and are probably not doing much, but I think they're probably alive."

Life Discovered in Earth's Coldest Environment Yet [Published US News & World Report - 20 hours ago]

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Discovery of Permafrost Microbes Offers Proof o... [Published International Business Times India - May 24 2013]
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Cyclone Power and McGill University to advance ... [Published Green Car Congress - May 24 2013] Cyclone Power Technologies, developer of the all-fuel, external combustion Cyclone Engine, and McGill University of Québec, Canada have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop alternative solid fuel combustion systems for micro-sized power ...
Cyclone Power and McGill University to advance ... [Published Green Car Congress - May 24 2013] Cyclone Power Technologies, developer of the all-fuel, external combustion Cyclone Engine, and McGill University of Québec, Canada have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop alternative solid fuel combustion systems for micro-sized ...
NEWS: Scientists detect cold-loving microbe in ... [Published Nunatsiaq News - Online - May 23 2013] A permafrost microbe discovered growing in Ellesmere Island at at –15 C — the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth — may show how life could exist on the Saturn moon Enceladus and on Mars, where similar salty, sub-zero conditions may ...
Barbara Kay: McGill seeks to ‘enhance its reput... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 23 2013] Universities must be careful in the awarding of honorary doctorates. What seems like a safe choice at the time can come back to haunt a university later. Sometimes even five minutes later. McGill University will be awarding philosopher and gender theorist ...
Executive Compensation as "Legal Corruption" - ... [Published Health Care Renewal - May 21 2013] "Legal corruption" was the description of current executive compensation practices appearing , of all places, in the Wall Street Journal. The arguments, by Henry Mintzer of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, apply to health ...

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