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IMMpress Volume 13 Issue 2 – The Art of Science

IMMpressOctober 2, 2025October 5, 2026

This issue's cover is a surrealistic digital collage celebrating the works of notable artist-scientists. Pieced together are the masterful creations of – Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Santiago Ramón y Cajal,...

Artistic Involvement in Scientific Breakthroughs

Boyan TsankovOctober 2, 2025October 5, 2026

According to Pablo Picasso, “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” Art in its very nature does not provide an accurate depiction of reality. In fact, oftentimes, it...

Before Pictures

Rishabh JohriOctober 2, 2025October 2, 2025

Cryo-electron microscopy, photon counting-computed tomography, quantum imaging – these are a few modern developments that have allowed scientists to capture microscopic details at ultra-resolution. Researchers today have a vast arsenal...

The Hardi Cinader Prize: Celebrating Graduate Students Crafting Scientific Breakthroughs with Artistry and Precision

Raven StoddartOctober 2, 2025October 5, 2026

The Hardi Cinader Prize is a well-recognized award for those in the Department of Immunology at the University of Toronto. Each year, this award is given to a graduate student...

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Painting and Science: What Photography and Impressionism Teach Us About Innovation

Tianning YuOctober 2, 2025October 1, 2025

Before Photography: Painting as a Window to the World Before the invention of photography, painting was humanity’s most powerful visual storytelling tool. Whether capturing the grandeur of royal courts, recording...

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An Immunologist’s Suite: How Dr. Gabriel Victora Composed a Life in B Cells

Ana Sofia Mendoza ViruegaOctober 2, 2025October 1, 2025

Science and art are often presented as a juxtaposition, the former delimited by rationality and objectivity, while the latter exposing abstract thought and subjectivity. But what if these realms harmonized?...

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Bioart: when science and creativity join paths

Ling Ling TaiOctober 2, 2025October 1, 2025

Bioart is an art form that intertwines the beauty of art with biology, using live cells and unique chemical processes as a medium. This movement advances the traditional boundaries of...

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The inseparable nature of art and science: Does the “Renaissance man” still exist today?

Deeva UthayakumarOctober 2, 2025October 1, 2025

Science and art have co-existed as disciplines throughout human history. Both are manifestations of the human imagination and require a modicum of creativity and skill in observation. From intricate star-shaped...

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Beyond Left and Right: The Neuroscience of Creativity and Logic

Mahdieh Golzari-SorkhehOctober 2, 2025October 1, 2025

The human brain, with its elegant bilateral symmetry, has long been depicted as a battleground of opposites. On one side: the left hemisphere, logical, analytical, verbal. On the other: the...

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The Science of Culinary Arts

Vera LynnOctober 2, 2025October 1, 2025

After a long week of work, don’t you want to treat yourself to a good meal? Maybe you're not too confident in your culinary arts...but it’s a good thing you’re...