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COVID-19: A new detection strategy developed at Polytechnique Montréal

February 9, 2022

A team from Polytechnique Montréal and the CRCHUM has just demonstrated how Raman spectroscopy and simple saliva samples could be used to quickly detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. The breakthrough was published today in an article the Journal ...

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"Sciences & Médias": Web capsules to prepare researchers for interviews with journalists

November 18, 2021

How should you talk to journalists? What mistakes should you avoid, and above all, how can you ensure you're being understood? Viviane Lalande, an adept at making science accessible, offers answers to these and many more queries in a series of capsul ...

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NSERC Alliance Grants: Polytechnique Montréal ranks first, winning 24% of all funds awarded to Québec universities

February 25, 2021

Polytechnique Montréal researchers have once again demonstrated their ability to kick start large-scale projects that have a concrete impact on the country’s citizens. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) recently announ ...

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Detecting the SARS-CoV-2 virus in saliva: A clinical study starts

November 11, 2020

A multidisciplinary team and their project, led by Polytechnique Montréal’s Professor Frédéric Leblond and the CHUM’s Dr. Dominique Trudel is moving into Phase II - developing a diagnostic tool using saliva samples to detect COVID-19 carriers. Over the ne ...

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COVID-19: Research project headed by Professor Frédéric Leblond funded by the CFI and the Government of Québec

November 6, 2020

Professor Frédéric Leblond has received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Government of Québec for a research project to create a biofluid characterization platform using Raman spectroscopy. The purpose? To develop a saliva test to ...

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More accurate prostate cancer diagnoses with Raman spectroscopy

August 18, 2020

Diagnosing the different subtypes and grades of prostate cancer could become more accurate with the use of Raman microspectroscopy, an approach developed by a team from Polytechnique Montréal and the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Universi ...

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2017 Québec Science Discovery of the Year Award goes to the cancer-detection probe developed by Frédéric Leblond and Kevin Petrecca!

March 19, 2018

The Québec Science magazine’s 25-year tradition continues: every fall, a jury comprised of researchers and journalists selects the top 10 most impressive discoveries in Quebec in the past year and the public is asked to vote to select the winner. This yea ...

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An infallible hand-held probe to aid cancer surgery

June 28, 2017

Researchers from Polytechnique Montréal et other health research facilities in Québec invented an intraoperative probe that reliably detects multiple types of tumour cells. ...

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Revolutionary new probe zooms in on cancer cells improves tumour surgeries and extends survival times for brain cancer patients

February 11, 2015

Brain cancer patients may live longer thanks to a new cancer-detection method developed by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro, at McGill University and the MUHC, and Polytechnique Montréal. The collaborative team h ...

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