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August 8, 2017

For cancer patients, understanding the odds of a treatment’s success can be bewildering. The same drug, applied to the same type of cancer, might…

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August 8, 2017

A molecule responsible for activating the body’s pain receptors has been identified by a U of T neuroscientist and an international team of…

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August 8, 2017

Kids should be putting down the screens, and putting on the sun screen, says Dr. Paul Cantarutti, an assistant professor at the department of family…

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August 4, 2017

We think of schools as safe places for children but an invisible hazard is lurking right outside the front door,  says a new study from the…

August 4, 2017

If you suffer a debilitating muscle injury, a tissue graft often offers the best hope to restore lost function.  But the procedure, in which…

August 4, 2017

Matthew Reiner, Chris Ristevski and Mohan Pandit met on their first day at the University of Toronto, surrounded by a sea of purple-painted first-year…

August 4, 2017

When The Conversation Canada asked its academic authors to share some recommended reading, the University of Toronto’s Bryan…

August 3, 2017

A visiting Fulbright scholar at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law will be working on a comparative law analysis regarding the role of…

August 3, 2017

Lawyers representing the victims of three Mexican women slain in suspicious execution-style killings were targeted by spyware developed by an…

August 3, 2017

A team of scientists has identified a small marine predator that once patrolled the ocean floor and grabbed its prey with 50 spines deployed from…

August 3, 2017

Stargazers were in luck on Saturday – clear skies meant unobstructed views of the moon, Jupiter and Saturn at the Canada 150 Star Party at U of T’s…

August 3, 2017

Ontario made a bold public policy move in September 2010 when full-day learning was made available to all four- and five-year-old children in the…