A World Beyond Our Own
How COVID-19 impacts global poverty, world hunger, and humanitarian issues in developing countries All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.– Alexandre Dumas, The Three...
What’s the Beef with GMOs?
Since their emergence in the 1970s, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been a source of discord between scientists, policy makers, and the public with regards to their safety and regulation....
Drug Pricing and Vaccine Economics: The Necessary Gamble
The hysteria that has poisoned the North American perception of vaccination with conspiratorial suspicion has made it simple to forget that the biggest issue with vaccines is not harm derived...
A Brief History of Neglected Tropical Diseases
In a discussion of tropical diseases, we would be remiss if we did not discuss the colonial origins of medical research in this field. Tropical medicine was born out of...
The End of the Guinea Worm
Three decades into the global initiative combatting Guinea worm disease, the incidence has fallen from 3.5 million cases in 1986 to just 22 cases in 2015. The eradication of Guinea...
Letter from the Chair – Volume 4, Issue 2
[caption id="attachment_1639" align="aligncenter" width="5616"] Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto[/caption] It used to be that getting your experiments done, with most of the proper controls...
Letter from the Editors – Volume 4, Issue 2
[caption id="attachment_2572" align="aligncenter" width="2800"] Co-Editors-in-Chief Angela Zhou (left) and Kieran Manion (right). Photo credit: Charles Tran.[/caption] "NO SCIENCE IS IMMUNE TO THE INFECTION OF POLITICS AND THE CORRUPTION OF POWER."...
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