CRISPR: More Than Cutting and Pasting
It would be a challenge to find anybody in the scientific community today who is not familiar the words “CRISPR-Cas9”. Over the years, this revolutionary discovery has transformed the way...
Show Me the Digital Money: What Cryptocurrency Means for Venezuela’s Economic Future
The first time I heard about cryptocurrency, I was in a movie theatre. Over bites of popcorn and commercials for the latest in automotive, my friend divulged that she was...
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
Advances in modern computing technologies have created an explosion of major breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The concept of super intelligent artificial beings can be originally traced...
The Race Against Antibiotic Resistance
The discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 revolutionized modern medicine. Since its early use of treating bacterial infections from flesh wounds during World War II, antibiotics have...
CSI 2018
The 31st annual Canadian Society for Immunology (CSI) conference was held this year from June 1st to June 4th at Western University in London, Ontario, also known as the “Forest...
Fighting the Good Fight: Separating Science from Non-Science in the Struggle for Vaccination
You’d have to forgive a new parent their initial trepidation. The very word “vaccination”, after all, might evoke in some visions of a deranged scientist in a lab coat jabbing wildly at...
The Opioid Crisis
In the beginning, it killed the pain and it didn’t bother me. I didn’t have cravings for it or anything like that. When I couldn’t stand the pain, I would...
Puff or Pass? How Marijuana’s Legalization May Help Manage Chronic Pain Among Canadians
Whether it's smoked, eaten or vaporized, marijuana consumption in humans leads to some fairly predictable outcomes: euphoria, hunger, relaxation, introspection, nervousness and even paranoia. Increasingly, however, people are consuming the plant for another...
Tripping out of Depression: Overcoming Mental Health Disorders with Psychedelic Drugs
You’re in a hut in the jungle, the music of wildlife and aroma of smoking herbs permeating the air. The shaman, dressed in traditional Amazonian garb, hands you the brownish...
Buck Up or Get Out: U of T’s New Mandatory Leave Policy Sends the Wrong Message about Mental Health
THE PREMISE For many young adults, university is the first time they are forced to contend with their mental health. Being away from friends and family, losing the security of a structured high...