For millions of displaced people around the world — many of them refugees, living in temporary shelters under crowded conditions — an...
Testing for viruses is not a new science, but the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the bottlenecks in established methods. Now,...
Researchers at the University of Toronto (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research)...
The emerging field of nanomedicine holds great promise in the battle against cancer. Tiny particles similar in size to protein...
U of T Engineering researchers have discovered a dose threshold that greatly increases the delivery of cancer-fighting drugs into a...
While most people are sheltering at home, for a team led by Professor Warren Chan it’s business as usual as they continue...
Researchers from the University of Toronto Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) have designed a simpler way to keep therapeutic...
A team of researchers from the University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute and the University Health Network’s Krembil Research Institute...
E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship recipient Warren Chan is a professor at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) at the...
Most Engineered Nanoparticles Enter Tumours Through Cells, Not Between them, U of T Researchers Find
University of Toronto researchers have discovered that an active rather than passive process dictates which nanoparticles enter solid tumours, upending...
For cancer patients, understanding the odds of a treatment’s success can be bewildering. The same drug, applied to the same...
U of T Engineering researchers have developed a ‘heater’ — the size of a pill tablet — that regulates temperature...