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• Numerous media report on a new study, conducted jointly by researchers at Concordia and the Quebec-based biotech company Idunn Technologies, that identifies six molecules found in plants that could slow the aging process. The study's senior author, Concordia biology professor Vladimir Titorenko,  carried out the study with a group of Concordia students and Idunn Technologies founder Éric Simard: Science Codex, Science Daily,Medical Xpress, Medical News Today, The Health Site, Sify News, Laboratory Equipment, TVAnouvelles.ca, Canoe, Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec, AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall), The Times of India, New Kerala, India Online, Economic Times of India (second item from the top) Republika (in Indonesian), Business Standard, Financial Express, Newswise, Headlines & Global News, Today Topics. Additionally, study co-author Simard was interviewed on Montreal's 101.5 FM (no link available). The study was published in the journal Oncotarget.  
• Health Day, Drugs.com, Pantagraph, Corriere Della Sera (in Italian) and Praxis Vita (in German) join continuing coverage of a Concordia study that shows how aging of the brain can be significantly slowed by education and simple physical activity, such as taking the stairs. The study, led by Jason Steffener, researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre, was published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.

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