The Magazine for the University of Toronto Department of Immunology
Author: Mayra Cruz Tleugabulova
Mayra is a doctoral student in the department of Immunology at the University of Toronto. She's currently studying basic aspects of the development and function of Natural Killer T cells.
In 1956, Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture at the California Institute of Technology hypothesizing on our ability to engineer and manipulate material at the atomic scale....
The Human Genome Project constituted one of the first large-scale research projects to generate vast amounts of biological information, what today we refer to as “Big Data”. Initiated in 1990,...
[caption id="attachment_154" align="alignright" width="320"] Amanda Moore is studying the development of dendritic cells in the laboratory of Dr. Michele Anderson.[/caption] Among the vast T cell population in the thymus are...
[caption id="attachment_70" align="alignright" width="251"] Vibrio infected sea urchin larva with gut inflammation (red cells in center). Image courtesy Dr. Jonathan Rast.[/caption] Some of the earliest concepts of immunity arose over...
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