The Great Divide
In 1893, the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London reported that in addition to seeing an increase in the annual number of deaths ascribed to cancer, it appeared that...
A Brief History of Neglected Tropical Diseases
In a discussion of tropical diseases, we would be remiss if we did not discuss the colonial origins of medical research in this field. Tropical medicine was born out of...
Split Vote: Can Regulation Reform Pharma?
AMERICANS PAY SOME OF THE HIGHEST PRICES for prescription drugs in the world, but after the Martin Shkreli and Turing Pharmaceuticals price hike fiasco in early September 2015, biotechnology and...
Research Highlights: A Selection from the Scientific Fiction Literature
Science Editorials on Televised Immunology highlights articles in the scientific fiction field that discuss the most recent progress in fertility and reproduction between humans and humanoid organisms, from the regulatory...
Cinematic Immunology: Walking the Line of Scientific Accuracy
Introduction Science fiction (sci-fi) is a broad genre of motion pictures (movies) characterized by the depiction of scientific or technological advances that have not yet been appropriately peer-reviewed, and are...
Single-Cell Mass Cytometry: Highly Multiparametric Analysis for a New Age
Mass cytometry has been hailed as a revolutionary new addition to the immunologist’s tool kit. Developed at Dr. Scott Tanner’s lab in the Department of Chemistry at the University of...
Paleo-Immunology: Looking back to the future of our immune system
In 1856, a curiously shaped early human skull with cranial features morphologically distinct from modern humans was discovered in Germany. Homo neanderthalensis, commonly known as the Neanderthal, thus became the...
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...
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