Category: Featured Article

Couples today are facing some difficult choices when it comes to to career and family planning. Although there is pressure on both partners, women are biologically and historically assigned the...

In our last issue, we talked about the ravages of cancer and the slow but steady progress being made on the immunological front to combat this multi-faceted disease. Since 2006,...

When we talk about immune responses and their effects on our health, we sometimes neglect the roles that sex (the biology) and gender (the social and cultural constructs) play in...

The sleepy city of Eldoret lies in the lush, hilly regions of western Kenya, an area known for its agriculture and endurance athletes. Eldoret is also home to Kenya’s second...

I like the big picture. I like thinking beyond a particular cancer or my specific organization and looking at cancer research as a whole … including globally, to understand the...

Jenny’s sister suffered a stillbirth 6 months ago. Her fetus was found to have trisomy 18 or Edwards syndrome, and Jenny can’t imagine going through the same pain and suffering...

At the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Dr. Pamela Ohashi and her group are leading efforts to harness the power of the immune system to treat cancer. Cancer immunotherapy is an...

Empowering our immune system in the fight against cancer Cancer is a complex, multifaceted group of diseases that arguably represent the greatest challenge faced by biomedical researchers in the developed...

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It’s easy to understand our preoccupation with infectious disease. For millennia, viruses have been a leading cause of premature death and even in the modern world are still significant contributors...