For millions of displaced people around the world — many of them refugees, living in temporary shelters under crowded conditions — an...
“Visual field testing on personal smartphones can enable vision screening in developing countries where access to expensive equipment and dedicated...
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers in the lab of Professor Aaron Wheeler (Chemistry, IBBME)...
Males are straightforward while females are complicated. This misguided view prompted a decades-long exclusion of female animals from research out...
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 19, 2019 — Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer in which malignant plasma cells, a...
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...
U of T Engineering researchers have developed a ‘heater’ — the size of a pill tablet — that regulates temperature...
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...
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...
While most people are sheltering at home, for a team led by Professor Warren Chan it’s business as usual as they continue...
Testing for viruses is not a new science, but the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the bottlenecks in established methods. Now,...
U of T Engineering researchers have discovered a dose threshold that greatly increases the delivery of cancer-fighting drugs into a...