Connecting the Dots – An Interview With Christine Williams
I like the big picture. I like thinking beyond a particular cancer or my specific organization and looking at cancer research as a whole … including globally, to understand the...
The Contradiction of Committee Meetings
This past year, the Department of Immunology took steps towards updating their committee meeting forms. The new forms (available at ), have a revamped evaluation system, more stringent requirements, and...
Bodily Product Compensation
How much money would someone have to give you for a tube of blood? An MRI? Do you care what it would be used for or how the data is...
Fair Dealing: Copyright Changes at Canadian Universities
As graduate students and scientists at the University of Toronto, our core purpose is to be intellectually creative, produce novel work, and disseminate this knowledge to the scientific community. Copyright...
Advances in Prenatal Screening
Jenny’s sister suffered a stillbirth 6 months ago. Her fetus was found to have trisomy 18 or Edwards syndrome, and Jenny can’t imagine going through the same pain and suffering...
Personalized Genomic Medicine
For all the science fiction film aficionados who fondly remember the 1997 genetic thriller GATTACA, the future is now! Or at least it was until November 22, 2013 when the...
Letter from the Editors – Spring 2014
[caption id="attachment_868" align="alignright" width="700"] Yuriy Baglaenko and Charles Tran, Co-Editors-in-Chief.[/caption] Women’s health is a broad topic that encompasses not only health and disease risk at the level of biological sex,...
Letter from the Chair – Spring 2014
[caption id="attachment_900" align="alignright" width="400"] Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto[/caption] Addressing important issues in our field and in life sciences in general is what we...
What’s in a Hypothesis?
In the last three months I've been re-acquainting myself with basic statistics. It's a periodic re-learning that usually occurs when I don't get the statistical result I had wanted or...
The Web as an indispensable tool for scientists
It’s difficult to imagine, but there was time before the internet. The web turned 25 this past week. Started at CERN as an endeavour to connect computers across the world...