Of Toxoplasma gondii: A Tail of Felines and Feelings
Arguably man and woman’s best friend, the common cat began its longstanding friendship with the human race around 9,500 years ago, likely as a symbiotic relationship in which humans cared...
Interspecific Chimeras – the Next Frontier in Regenerative Medicine?
In 2011, Dr. Anthony Atala of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine stepped onto the stage at the TED conference and delivered his talk on the promising future of...
Nanotechnology: The Future is Now
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 Future of Cancer Detection
On average, only 45 percent of Canadians regularly go to the doctor for complete physicals or checkups. In between these checkups, most of us only seek medical attention if we...
A New Journey Through Known Space: Alumni Interview with Geneve Awong
Dr. Geneve Awong conducted her doctoral studies in the lab of Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker at the Sunnybrook Research Institute and graduated in September 2011. Currently, she is the manager...
The Future of Bacterial Cancer Therapy
The field of cancer therapy is rapidly evolving. From nanoparticles designed to carry drugs into the heart of tumours to immune cells engineered with chimeric antigen receptors, novel advancements are...
Man and Machine: Working Hand in Hand
Artificial limbs strong enough to crush human bone. Wireless neural implants. Robotic “sleeves” that keep the heart pumping. And synthetic skin that can “feel”. Sound like ideas from a sci-fi...
NASA’s Twins Study : What are the Long Term Effects of Spaceflight on the Human Body?
Since the first spaceflight in 1961, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has sought to increase mankind’s knowledge of space exploration. Critical to these efforts has been...
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...