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

February 9, 2022

A single droplet of dried saliva is enough for Raman spectroscopy to identify whether or not a person is infected with the COVID-19 virus (Credit: Amber et al, JBO) The pandemic has familiarized all of us with techniques used to identify the presence of v ...

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

November 18, 2021

Viviane Lalande (Photo: YouTube) Some thirty 5- to 10-minute capsules in the “Sciences & Médias” series address questions about how to manage science's moments in the spotlight, from interview preparation to the interview itself. Helping viewers ...

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

February 25, 2021

Professor Philippe Pasquier's project entitled "Use of permanent geothermal standing column wells for the effective electrification of the institutional and commercial sectors" has also been selected for support via the NSERC Alliance Grant ...

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

November 11, 2020

Polytechnique Montréal’s Professor Frédéric Leblond (Engineering Physics), and the CHUM’s Dr. Dominique Trudel, (Pathologist), both of whom are also researchers at the CRCHUM. (Photo: CHUM) Equipped with a straight-forward saliva test that uses Raman spec ...

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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, Polytechnique Montréal Department of Engineering Physics and researcher at the CRCHUM Research Centre. (Photo: Caroline Perron photographies) Full professor Frédéric Leblond, of the Department of Engineering Physics and researc ...

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More accurate prostate cancer diagnoses with Raman spectroscopy

August 18, 2020

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer directly affecting men in Canada, accounting for 20% of all new cancer cases identified in this group. The Canadian Cancer Society says some 23,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year and approxim ...

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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

When surgeons remove a tumour from a patient's brain, they do their best to remove all the cancer cells in the surrounding area, to prevent recurrence. Regardless of whether or not they are cancerous, many cells still cannot be identified microscopic ...

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An infallible hand-held probe to aid cancer surgery

June 28, 2017

Patients with common widespread forms of cancer will enjoy longer life expectancy and reduced risk of recurrence thanks to a multimodal optical spectroscopy probe developed by scientists at Polytechnique Montréal, the University of Montreal Hospital Resea ...

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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

“Often it is impossible to visually distinguish cancer from normal brain, so invasive brain cancer cells frequently remain after surgery, leading to cancer recurrence and a worse prognosis,” says Dr. Kevin Petrecca, Chief of Neurosurgery and brain cancer ...

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