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Most polar bear populations will collapse by the end of the century if global warming continues at the current pace, a new University of Toronto…
Stay-at-home orders and physical distancing have made the practice of journalism more challenging. And yet, as one University of Toronto expert…
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A group of researchers from the University of Toronto has developed a credit-card sized tool for growing cancer cells outside the human body,…
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In an age of COVID-19, the phrase “business as usual” has nearly lost all meaning for Canadians who have seen their lives disrupted in myriad…
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An unusual garden at U of T Mississauga is drawing inquiries from curious passers-by. The green lawn between Alumni House and Mississauga Road…
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Can we make human cells and tissues that perform better than nature? Can we reverse aging and make old cells young again? How can we ensure…
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Professor Swetaprovo Chaudhuri of the University of Toronto Institute of Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) normally spends his time…
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When Fernanda Yanchapaxi’s grandmother in Ecuador died early in the pandemic, she was unable to travel home to grieve with her family. A doctoral…
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The University of Toronto is leading a first-of-its-kind national dialogue focused on tackling anti-Black racism in Canadian post-secondary…
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A blood test designed by researchers at the University of Toronto and Sinai Health’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute can accurately…
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Empirica Therapeutics, a startup co-founded by Donnelly Centre investigator Jason Moffat has been acquired by Century Therapeutics, a…
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have shown that an enzyme called RNA polymerase (Pol) II drives generation of the building blocks of…