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Artificial intelligence is moving fast and is already reshaping sectors from health care and finance to manufacturing and national security. At the University of Ottawa, the new Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) offers deep domain expertise to help organizations design, build and deploy AI solutions tailored to their needs.

An interdisciplinary team led by Dr. Bernard Thébaud of The Ottawa Hospital, CHEO and the University of Ottawa has received a $24 million grant to fast-track the development of cell and gene therapies for patients with chronic lung diseases.

A new study led by researchers in the Eco-Evo-Devo lab at the University of Ottawa finds that ants can decouple antennae size from both head and body size as they develop into different social castes, revealing how social signals and hormones help shape traits for specialized colony roles. Bigger animals usually have bigger body parts. It’s one of biology’s most familiar patterns. Yet some ants...

Summary • Tapping into brain-like computing hardware provides a path forward for semiconductor chip manufacturing. • Deploying neuromorphic circuits that physically mimic the human brain's processing could provide solution to alleviating electric and environmental burden of AI data centres.

Summary • Neurodegenerative diseases impair cell signalling, with antibodies becoming lost in cell signalling pathways. • New process allows body’s cells to reach the brain and deliver the necessary antibodies. • Process taps into cells natural recycling mechanism of autophagy to delete useless hitchhiking cells to help healthy ones reach their destination.

Reducing barriers, increasing support important for diverse, healthy physician workforce in Canada.

Demographic trends can no longer be considered separately from the planetary boundaries of a world facing environmental crises, argue a group of international experts in a rebuttal to pronatalist arguments gaining political traction worldwide.

Roadsides may not look like wildlife habitat, but a few simple changes to how they are maintained could turn them into much better places for pollinators. A new uOttawa-led study found that reducing mowing and herbicide use along rural roadsides led to a 45 percent jump in pollinator numbers and a 23 percent increase in the number of species found there.

Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa were able to reverse certain behavioural symptoms in a mouse model of autism by fixing a problem in the brain blood vessels. Their findings, published in Neuron, present a promising new treatment target for these symptoms.

Cooling a home overnight may not be enough to protect older adults from the physiological effects of repeated daytime indoor overheating during a multi-day heatwave, according to new research from the University of Ottawa.