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With much of the world locked down due to COVID-19, art and creativity has burst into living spaces through platforms like Zoom, livestreams and over…
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A simple mouth swab and rinse with testing technology adapted from a common viral detection method – the pap smear – could provide an easy, low…
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One of the most puzzling things about the novel coronavirus is how it affects people in such different ways. Among a single group of very…
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Experts from the University of Toronto will help lead a federal task force charged with obtaining reliable estimates of COVID-19 cases in Canada – and…
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Ontario doctors and scientists have formed two high-powered committees to sift through the mountain of often conflicting and even dangerous scientific…
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A University of Toronto researcher is exploring a new diagnostic lung test that could identify COVID-19 patients who are at the greatest risk of…
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They went from a conversation on a Thursday morning to blueprints on Monday and a full-scale prototype built five days later. University of Toronto…
More than 150 drugs are being developed around the world to treat or prevent COVID-19, including antivirals, immunosuppressants and therapies based on…
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How do our minds deal with the increasing complexity of the modern world? How can we train ourselves to face life’s challenges? How do we stay…
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While governments have taken understandable steps to reduce reliance on global supply chains when it comes to COVID-19 protective equipment,…
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Across Canada, businesses are changing their approaches and offerings to meet customers’ shifting needs during the COVID-19 pandemic – and that…
Download a transcript Grocery shopping is different in a global pandemic – how often we venture out, what we can buy, how we navigate the…