It helps to check a map before starting a road trip, so imagine how important it is to know the lay of the land, so to speak, before you crack open someone’s chest. That’s exactly what doctors do to prepare for heart surgery. The technology, though, is far from perfect. But what if doctors could have a 3D map of the aorta before the patient goes under the knife?
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Volume 4, Number 2
The third edition of the Junior Nanotech Network, to be held in 2010, promises to continue the student exchange’s tradition of cutting-edge research.
Volume 4, Number 2
If you can’t eat it, it’s not food. Learn about bioresource engineering professor Vijaya Raghavan’s decades-long effort to bring post-harvest innovations to Indian farms.
Volume 4, Number 2
Every two years, the Junior Nanotech Network brings together PhD students from McGill and Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität. Nanoscience may be measured in billionths of metres, but innovation means reaching out around the planet.
Volume 1, Number 2
By James Martin Extreme weather researcher takes to the air to help those on the ground cope with the vicissitudes of the elements Wings crippled by ice, a small plane battles to stay aloft in the skies over the Magdalen Islands. A lightning strike forces a white-knuckle landing on a small runway in the Sierra [...]
Volume 2, Number 1
by James Martin McGill researchers join up with AstraZeneca to uncover the root causes of pain It’s a world of hurt out there. Pain is the number one reason people visit doctors, and the indirect costs of chronic pain—such as increased absenteeism and decreased productivity in the workplace—are estimated to cost billions of dollars annually [...]
Volume 1, Number 1
By Susan Murley Going commercial with a new prescription management system takes networking skills, vision – and a good dose of common sense When a physician asks a patient what medications other health-care practitioners have prescribed, the doctor often receives an answer like “It’s a white pill, and I think the name starts with ‘G’ [...]
Volume 2, Number 2
by Christopher Dewolf We can put a man on the moon—we just can’t remember how. Kimiz Dalkir is using knowledge management to stem the tide of corporate amnesia. “I like to use NASA examples,” says Kimiz Dalkir, professor in McGill’s School of Information Studies, as we sit in her office in the basement of the McLennan Library Building. [...]
Volume 3, Number 1
Reconciling biodiversity conservation and the fishing industry in the waters of the world’s largest tropical lake.
Volume 3, Number 1
In the crops of sub-Saharan Africa, researchers are fighting tenacious parasites with…fungi.
