Search and rescue crews are already using drones to locate missing hikers. Farmers are flying them over fields to survey crops. And delivery companies will soon use drones to drop packages a... Read more
A new type of sensor could lead to artificial skin that someday helps burn victims ‘feel’ and safeguards the rest of us, University of Connecticut researchers suggest in a paper in Advanced... Read more
Scientists at McMaster University have discovered several new biomarkers from a single drop of blood that could allow earlier and more definitive detection of cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic... Read more
New surfaces create promise of safer implants, more accurate diagnostic tests Researchers at McMaster University have solved a vexing problem by engineering surface coatings that can repel e... Read more
A small, black box developed in a McMaster University lab could change the way scientists search for new antibiotics. The Printed Fluorescence Imaging Box – or PFIbox, for short – is capable... Read more
Researchers from McMaster University and the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, together with colleagues at other partnering institutions,... Read more
Is that meat still good? Are you sure? McMaster researchers have developed a test to bring certainty to the delicate but critical question of whether meat and other foods are safe to eat or... Read more
McMaster University engineers have devised a way to make testing for new drugs more efficient and affordable, and reduce the time for helpful medications to reach the public Chemical Enginee... Read more
Pyrethroid pesticides are effective. Sometimes too effective. Researchers at Michigan State University’s entomology department have unlocked a key to maintain the insecticide’s effectiveness... Read more
It’s a problem as old and as aggravating as eye drops themselves: as soon as the medicine goes in, almost all of it washes right back out again. Now, McMaster chemical engineer Heather Shear... Read more
The first steps towards developing a vaccine against an insidious sexual transmitted infection (STI) have been accomplished by researchers at McMaster University. Researchers at the Michael... Read more
A dietary supplement containing a blend of thirty vitamins and minerals—all natural ingredients widely available in health food stores—has shown remarkable anti-aging properties that can pre... Read more
McMaster researchers have come up a way for inventing molecule probes to quickly identify deadly bacterial strains of infectious disease. The find, published as a “hot paper” by a German sci... Read more
LSTM’s health economists Professor Louis Niessen and Dr Jahangir Khan outline the importance for universal access to medicines in the control of neglected diseases, other major infections, a... Read more
McMaster Engineering researchers Emily Cranston and Igor Zhitomirsky are turning trees into energy storage devices capable of powering everything from a smart watch to a hybrid car. The scie... Read more