Testing for viruses is not a new science, but the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the bottlenecks in established methods. Now,...
While most people are sheltering at home, for a team led by Professor Warren Chan it’s business as usual as they continue...
Prof. Warren Chan (IBBME, Donnelly Centre), Dr. Samira Mubareka (Sunnybrook Hospital), Dr. Jonathan Gubbay (Public Health Ontario) and their trainees have summarized current diagnostic tools for...
Two weeks ago they were making light panels. Today they’re sourcing medical equipment. The COVID-19 outbreak has led to reports of shortages of life-saving personal protective equipment (PPE) for front-line health workers, including in...
U of T Engineering researchers have developed a ‘heater’ — the size of a pill tablet — that regulates temperature...
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...
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 19, 2019 — Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer in which malignant plasma cells, a...
Males are straightforward while females are complicated. This misguided view prompted a decades-long exclusion of female animals from research out...
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers in the lab of Professor Aaron Wheeler (Chemistry, IBBME)...
“Visual field testing on personal smartphones can enable vision screening in developing countries where access to expensive equipment and dedicated...
For millions of displaced people around the world — many of them refugees, living in temporary shelters under crowded conditions — an...
For cancer patients, understanding the odds of a treatment’s success can be bewildering. The same drug, applied to the same...