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Interspecific Chimeras – the Next Frontier in Regenerative Medicine?

Sintia TeichmanApril 13, 2017April 13, 2017

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...

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Nanotechnology: The Future is Now

Mayra Cruz TleugabulovaApril 13, 2017April 13, 2017

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....

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The Future of Cancer Detection

Alicia KilfoyApril 13, 2017April 13, 2017

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...

Editorial Feature

Benchmarking IMMpress Magazine – Year 4

Kieran ManionApril 13, 2017April 13, 2017

Cover

Issue 1 2017 – Front Cover

Kieran ManionApril 13, 2017April 13, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2990" align="alignleft" width="2550"] As any historian will tell you, to understand the future you must first look to the past. And so, for this future-themed issue of IMMpress Magazine,...

Feature Grad Life

A New Journey Through Known Space: Alumni Interview with Geneve Awong

Sintia TeichmanApril 13, 2017April 13, 2017

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...

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The Future of Bacterial Cancer Therapy

Dario FerriApril 13, 2017April 13, 2017

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...

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Man and Machine: Working Hand in Hand

Sharon LingApril 13, 2017April 13, 2017

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...

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NASA’s Twins Study : What are the Long Term Effects of Spaceflight on the Human Body?

Evelyn LamApril 13, 2017April 13, 2017

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...

Perspective

On the Topic of Allergies

Lisa HungApril 13, 2017January 31, 2018

When I was six months old, I experienced my first full-blown anaphylactic reaction. The cause- a handful of seemingly harmless rice cereal. An allergy test following this incident revealed a...

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Interspecific Chimeras – the Next Frontier in Regenerative Medicine?

Nanotechnology: The Future is Now

The Future of Cancer Detection

Benchmarking IMMpress Magazine – Year 4

Issue 1 2017 – Front Cover

A New Journey Through Known Space: Alumni Interview with Geneve Awong

The Future of Bacterial Cancer Therapy

Man and Machine: Working Hand in Hand

NASA’s Twins Study : What are the Long Term Effects of Spaceflight on the Human Body?

On the Topic of Allergies

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