Every year, approximately 40% of global food crops valued at over $200 billion USD are lost to plant disease. Staples like wheat, rice, potato, soybean are constantly fighting against pathogens,...
Animal models are the cornerstone of basic research, providing simple, easy-to-study and ethical biological systems that help us better understand how the human body works. Immunologists tend to rely heavily...
Cancer is often described as a uniquely human tragedy. But it isn’t. Cancer affects nearly every class of vertebrate and is especially common in mammals. It is, in many ways,...
Drug discovery is a game of long odds: only one in ten thousand lab discoveries survives the gauntlet from benchtop to prescription pad. Stranger still is the fate of a...
Monday morning begins: you open Outlook, fix a sentence in Word, skim a new paper, and accidentally drift onto social media where yet another “personal assistant” pops up. The recent...
1. VC vs. PE: What’s the Difference? Every biotech company begins its journey with an idea, long before it earns a single dollar. To survive those early years, it needs...
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...
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 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...
In 2015, Tu Youyou, a Chinese pharmacologist was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of artemisinin, a novel antimalarial drug. Her discovery was made possible...