Canada could save $7.3 billion annually with universal public coverage of medically necessary prescription drugs. Canada is the only developed country with a universal health care system tha... Read more
Pretty soon, powering your tablet could be as simple as wrapping it in cling wrap. That’s Illan Kramer’s (ECE) hope. Kramer and colleagues have just invented a new way to spray solar cells o... Read more
3D skin printer uses patient’s own cells to create new skin for grafts, eliminates painful harvesting While some of us are using the new power of 3D printers to make smartphone cases a... Read more
Previously undocumented in North American rivers, concentrations of microplastic particles in the St. Lawrence are as high as has been observed in the world’s most contaminated marine sedime... Read more
Think those flat, glassy solar panels on your neighbour’s roof are the pinnacle of solar technology? Think again. Researchers in the University of Toronto’s Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department o... Read more
“We were able to show that transplantation of the old treated muscle stem cell population repaired the damage and restored strength to injured muscles of old mice” Researchers at the Stanfor... Read more
A new algorithm designed at the University of Toronto has the power to profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr. This mon... Read more
Invisibility cloaking is no longer the stuff of science fiction: Two researchers in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have demonstrated an effectiv... Read more
Research team uncovers gene regulatory network that controls seed ‘de-greening’ A genetic discovery by a University of Calgary-led international research team offers a solution to a longstan... Read more
The growth of deadly plaque inside the walls of arteries may not happen as scientists believed, research from the University of Toronto and Massachusetts General Hospital has found. The rese... Read more
Studies suggest that computer models called neural networks may learn to recognize patterns in data using the same algorithms as the human brain The brain performs its canonical task — learn... Read more
A new method of maturing human heart cells that simulates the natural growth environment of heart cells while applying electrical pulses to mimic the heart rate of fetal humans has led resea... Read more
An electronic chip that can analyze blood and other clinical samples for infectious bacteria with record-breaking speed A U of T team – including researchers from Electrical and Computer Eng... Read more
IN “SKYFALL”, the latest James Bond movie, 007 is given a gun that only he can fire. It works by recognising his palm print, rendering it impotent when it falls into a baddy’s hands. Like ma... Read more
An estimated 4,837,000 asthmatics with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) could benefit substantially from antifungal treatment, say researchers from the University of Toronto an... Read more
