Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Thompson Rivers University (TRU) are forging a new partnership to advance innovation, research, graduate studies and workforce development across British Columbia.

This new partnership – bolstered by a memorandum of understanding signed this month – will lead to collaborations in strategic priority areas for B.C., including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, health, wildfire management and emergency response, and Indigenous language revitalization.

Suicide rates among adolescent girls in Gorontalo, a province in Indonesia, are among the highest in the country. However, existing mental health interventions rarely reflect the social and cultural realities of the communities they aim to serve. Researchers from Hasanuddin University have now proposed a qualitative study protocol to explore the lived experiences of at-risk young women and key community stakeholders, with the aim of collaboratively designing a culturally grounded and community-owned mental health intervention.

A major international study led by Flinders University has identified a genetic contributor to juvenile glaucoma.

Published today in leading US journal JAMA Ophthalmology, the study marks another important step towards treating multiple forms of glaucoma with the support of genetic testing. While glaucoma typically affects older adults, many people are unaware it can affect younger people too.

A surprising breakthrough in anti-aging research raises hopes of delaying muscle aging and weakness by harnessing the potential of a garlic-derived compound, S-1-propenyl-L-cysteine (S1PC). Researchers identify a key role for S1PC in orchestrating a key inter-organ communication between fat tissue and the hypothalamus in the brain, thus supporting muscle function in aged mice. Elements of this signaling mechanism were also observed in humans, highlighting the potential of S1PC-based anti-aging interventions.