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Researchers have established a way to harness DNA as the engine of a microscopic "machine" they can turn on to detect things like viruses, bacteria, cocaine and metals.

Ads for unhealthy foods and beverages high in sugar or salt have an immediate and significant impact on children and lead to harmful diets, according to research from McMaster.

Three McMaster researchers working to improve the lives of women around the world have been recognized by the Council of Ontario Universities.

Jennifer Heisz, 2016 recipient of the 2016 Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award, will be conducting research on the use of exercise breaks in classroom lectures for the purpose of optimal learning for students.

A McMaster researcher studying how to embed mental health policy into Canada's social system has been named a 2016 Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholar.

The peat bogs of the world, once waterlogged repositories of dead moss, are being converted into fuel-packed fire hazards that can burn for months, warns a McMaster researcher in a paper published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.

More than one hundred McMaster researchers, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows have received a total of $15.7M from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.

McMaster and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences have collaborated to have a satellite research facility at the Health Sciences Centre.

Sunscreen's UV-blocking power could get a major boost from the addition of an all-natural waste product from the pulp and paper industry.

Exercise may have some surprising benefits for seniors who experience muscle injury and loss as they age.

New research into the ringing-ear condition known as tinnitus points to an alarming level of early hearing damage in young people who are exposed to loud music, prompting a warning from a leading Canadian researcher.

A dietary supplement containing a blend of 30 vitamins and minerals has shown remarkable anti-aging properties that can prevent and even reverse massive brain cell loss.