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As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on and personal protective equipment supplies dwindle, one University of Toronto researcher is working on a novel…
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Two weeks ago they were making light panels. Today they’re sourcing medical equipment. Nanoleaf, a company…
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When it comes to assessing the risk of transmission of an infectious disease like COVID-19 and evaluating the effectiveness of measures like physical…
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University of Toronto researcher Sachdev Sidhu and his collaborators are engineering antibody molecules that can neutralize…
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As the COVID-19 pandemic grips the world, Canadians have been presented with a profusion of statistics, graphs and other data visualizations…
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As hospitals brace for a wave of COVID-19 patients, policy-makers need to strike a balance between slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus,…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended people’s daily work and personal lives in ways we could never have imagined only a few weeks ago. While there’s…
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The University of Toronto is scouring labs across its three campuses for masks, gloves and other badly-needed protective equipment to donate to…
A new podcast hosted by the University of Toronto’s Vivek Goel offers timely and reliable information about the COVID-19…
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On New Year’s Eve, the software company BlueDot pushed out a notification to its customers about a mysterious illness that appeared in…
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The rescheduled Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics should bring the world back together in a reinvigorated spirit of Olympism – the ideal that sport…
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As the COVID-19 outbreak unfolds in Toronto, medical trainees working on the frontlines often need somewhere to stay away from their families to…