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Imagine being inside an E. coli bacterium, smaller than a speck of dust and surrounded by genetic material, molecules and proteins. This…
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The health of Black Canadian women may be endangered by a lack of data, according to a first-of-its-kind paper by University of Toronto…
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New intervention techniques could help reduce bullying against children who don’t conform to gender stereotypes, a new study involving University…
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When University of Toronto Professor Michael Ohh was scouting postdoctoral positions at Harvard Medical School in the mid-1990s, a group of Canadians…
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Deep Genomics, the genetic medicine startup founded by University of Toronto Professor Brendan Frey, was one of five Canadian companies that…
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Which genetic changes predispose to disease? How do characters in a novel relate to each other? Which wine and cheese go well together? Turns out,…
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Whether you are driving or hopping in an Uber, you probably depend on a navigation app to get where you need to be. But as handy as these tools…
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The manufacturing industry is changing. Jobs that once relied on individuals to carry out manual labour are increasingly turning to automation because…
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With condo construction booming in Toronto, it’s important to not forget about community centres and parks, University of Toronto researcher Jeff…
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This past August, six months after the contentious breakdown of talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and mere…
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Collaborations between public institutions and large global companies often raise understandable concerns, but the challenges posed by such…
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Getting a snapshot of a country’s health statistics is as easy as using surveys about people’s cause of death and disability, along with…