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• Health News Network reprises a report about Concordia research, led by associate professor of Biology Vladimir Titorenko, into the cancer-fighting potential of a naturally produced bile acid in the human liver. The story is also reported by Canoe. The study was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
• TheWalrus.ca provides a link to video of psychology professor Jim Pfaus' appearance at "The Walrus Talks Vice," on January 29, at Calgary's Jack Singer Concert Hall. The Pfaus talk was titled "Naughty, sexy and fun: why does vice entice?"  
• TheWalrus.ca also provides a link to a video of Simone de Beauvoir Institute professor Viviane Namaste at the same event, and her talk, "On Women, vice and vagrancy in Canada: How the recognition of women's rights in Canada depends on vice." "The Walrus Talks Vice," an evening of speeches by public personalities, writers and scholars, was part of Concordia's Thinking Out Loud lecture series.
• Research conducted by MA candidate Meaghan Barlow, PhD candidate Sarah Liu, and psychology professor Carsten Wrosch, into the effects of illness on a person's sense of social isolation continues to garner media attention. The latest to pick up the story are Web MD and Córdoba Noticias (in Spanish). The study is published in Health Psychology.
• A Thomson Reuters/Zawya release mentions Concordia among the partners in the new Associated Research Unit for Intelligent Transport and Vehicular Technology, established under the patronage of Lebanon's Ministry of Interior and Municipalities. Other partners include ÉTS Montréal, France's Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), the Lebanese American University, the American University of Beirut, Khalifa University and Blaise-Pascal University.
• A Financial Post article on how companies repurpose, reuse and recycle waste mentions Concordia research into industrial symbiosis, where one company reuses another company's waste. The research was led by Raymond Paquin, assistant professor of management.

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