/newsroom/taxonomy/term/2567/all en /newsroom/channels/news/how-turn-specific-genes-and-334623 <p>Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer are just some of the disorders associated with specific genes not “turning on” and “turning off” as they should. By using new CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology, in a recent paper in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25991-9/metrics"><i>Nature Communications</i></a><i>, </i>McGill University researchers have described a new technique that scientists across the world can potentially use to explore novel ways of treating diseases associated with dysregulation in DNA methylation.</p> Fri, 05 Nov 2021 20:55:30 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 283400 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/chronic-pain-changes-our-immune-systems-258156 <p><em><strong>By Cynthia Lee</strong></em><br /> <strong><a href="/newsroom">Newsroom</a></strong></p> <p>Chronic pain may reprogram the way genes work in the immune system, according to a new study by McGill University researchers published in the journal <em>Scientific Reports</em>.  </p> Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:04:50 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25165 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/honey-i-shrunk-ants-how-environment-controls-size-243448 <p>Until now scientists have believed that the variations in traits such as our height, skin colour, tendency to gain weight or not, intelligence, tendency to develop certain diseases, etc., all of them traits that exist along a continuum, were a result of both genetic and environmental factors. But they didn’t know how exactly these things worked together. By studying ants, McGill researchers have identified a key mechanism by which environmental (or epigenetic) factors influence the expression of all of these traits, (along with many more). Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:18:15 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 22232 at /newsroom