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Photo of Dana Philpott, Stephen Girardin and Mena Abdel-Nour
July 12, 2019

Researchers at the University of Toronto have uncovered an immune mechanism where host cells combat bacterial infection – and that a protein crucial…

Photo of oil sands operations near Fort McMurray, Alta.
July 11, 2019

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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July 11, 2019

A University of Toronto Mississauga researcher and his colleagues have “uncovered high potential research avenues” for assessing the benefits and…

photo of protesters in Sudan
July 11, 2019

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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July 11, 2019

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…

Mobile cinema in China
July 10, 2019

Mobile cinemas appeared in China in the 1950s as a means for the government to educate people and spread communist messages to the countryside. The…

July 10, 2019

For a long time, Janelle Joseph didn’t consider becoming a professor because she didn't see many racialized people who were faculty members…

Photo of David Taylor in Delhi
July 9, 2019

For more than a billion people around the world, running water comes from “intermittent” systems that turn on and off at various times of the…

Photo of a soy plant
July 9, 2019

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found a consistent cholesterol-lowering effect for soy protein after studying pooled data from dozens of…