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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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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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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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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…
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If you suffer a debilitating muscle injury, a tissue graft often offers the best hope to restore lost function. But the procedure, in which…
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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…
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When The Conversation Canada asked its academic authors to share some recommended reading, the University of Toronto’s Bryan…
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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…
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Lawyers representing the victims of three Mexican women slain in suspicious execution-style killings were targeted by spyware developed by an…
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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…
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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…
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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…