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Researchers at the University of Toronto have uncovered an immune mechanism where host cells combat bacterial infection – and that a protein crucial…
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Jeffrey Brook, a University of Toronto expert in air quality and health, spent nearly a year reviewing data from Canada’s Joint Oil Sands Monitoring…
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A University of Toronto Mississauga researcher and his colleagues have “uncovered high potential research avenues” for assessing the benefits and…
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In January, videos surfaced on social media that appeared to show paramilitary forces in Sudan using tear gas on protesters at a hospital in Khartoum.…
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Most Canadian hospital staff knowingly continue to work while sick with flu or other respiratory illnesses, according to University of Toronto…
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In nature, one organism’s waste often becomes energy for another – and the University of Toronto’s Emma Master wants to apply these same principles to…
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Mobile cinemas appeared in China in the 1950s as a means for the government to educate people and spread communist messages to the countryside. The…
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For a long time, Janelle Joseph didn’t consider becoming a professor because she didn't see many racialized people who were faculty members…
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The University of Toronto’s Governing Council recently approved a proposal for academic restructuring that closes the Faculty of Forestry and has…
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Female survivors of childhood cancers who have been treated with thoracic radiation, such as survivors of Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL), have a higher risk…
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For more than a billion people around the world, running water comes from “intermittent” systems that turn on and off at various times of the…
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have found a consistent cholesterol-lowering effect for soy protein after studying pooled data from dozens of…