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A University of Toronto education is meant to prepare graduates for anything life throws at them – including, apparently, whirlwind journeys…
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Professor Shulamit Levenberg, a leading interdisciplinary researcher in stem cells and tissue engineering at Technion-Israel Institute of…
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A group of University of Toronto researchers are part of a 19-person international team awarded US$4 million by the Chan…
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High-risk research can bring high rewards, but for early-career researchers seeking tenure and funding renewal it often makes more sense to stick with…
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Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information are holding a series of workshops with children to better understand how they use…
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Agincourt is renowned as one of Toronto’s Asian culinary hotspots. But its history – including opposition to a wave of immigrants in the early…
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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…