Issue 3, 2018 – Cover
In 1937, the soon to be doomed Spanish Republican government commissioned Pablo Picasso to paint a mural for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in...
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Letter from the Editors – Volume 6, Issue 3
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze." - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale. In this issue of IMMpress Magazine we explore...
Letter from the Chair – Volume 6, Issue 3
[caption id="attachment_2807" align="aligncenter" width="584"] Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto[/caption] This latest issue of IMMpress Magazine, which you are about to surely enjoy, examines several timely and...
Industrial Endeavours: An Interview with Dr. Daniel Chapman
From working in the lab of Dr. David Williams, to starting up his own consulting firm, and finally reaching management positions at Sanofi Pasteur in Toronto, immunology alumnus Dr. Daniel...
De-Extinction: Bringing the Dead Back
Mammoths, dodos, and aurochs – oh my! Recent enhancements in genetic tools are helping scientists do the unthinkable—manipulate life and death—by attempting to bring back extinct animals. The possibilities seem...
The Genome Marketplace
How much is your genome worth? George Church, a pioneer in the field of genetic sequencing, is encouraging the public to consider the value of their genetic code by making...
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...