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October 4, 2018

History was made at a University of Toronto lab in 1921 when physician Frederick Banting and researcher Charles Best discovered insulin – transforming…

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October 4, 2018

University of Toronto researchers have published a commentary in The New England Journal of Medicine arguing that men in academic medicine are using…

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October 3, 2018

A health-care advisory council struck by the Ontario government will draw on the expertise of the University of Toronto's Adalsteinn Brown, the…

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October 3, 2018

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy have seen remarkable success combining tumour-modulating nanoparticles with…

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October 3, 2018

The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the few scientific studies to enter the public consciousness through mainstream news, documentaries, popular…

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October 3, 2018

Tania Li, an anthropologist whose research for the past two decades has been focused on Indigenous highland communities in Indonesia, has…

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October 2, 2018

On a hot July day in 2006, Michael Garton was living his dream. Then 24 years old, the British climber was scaling the tallest vertical rock face in…

October 1, 2018

Attempts to replicate classical scientific studies have been failing. These alarming failures have hit psychology, the life sciences and other fields,…

October 1, 2018

The federal government recently spent $4.5 billion to purchase the Trans Mountain pipeline, a move that highlights the significant political risk…