March 2022

A new initiative being led by a Dalhousie University professor is providing free advice and support to Canadians experiencing anxiety about the ongoing war in Ukraine, while gathering important data on how text messaging may help alleviate such stressors.

Sean Myles, an associate professor in Dalhousie University's Faculty of Agriculture, and his team of researchers have shed light on apple evolution after examining 10 apple phenotypes -- or traits -- to assess how apples have changed during domestication and breeding.

On March 18, 2022, members of the sleep research community will mark World Sleep Day, an annual event that brings together sleep health-care providers to discuss and distribute sleep information around the world.

Pregnant women, their fetuses and infants are at increased risk of severe disease and death from many diseases like COVID-19 that could be prevented with vaccines. Yet, they are typically excluded from research aimed at generating data to support decision-making when it comes to vaccine implementation.

A team of researchers from Dalhousie University and other Canadian organizations has discovered what could be the first link between a case of COVID-19 in deer and humans, suggesting in a new paper that the virus can be transmitted from wildlife to people.