by Stacey Johnson | Jan 22, 2021
Former president Donald Trump was, unfortunately, not a big fan of science. Perhaps more damaging, he was an instigator of misinformation and disinformation. One gem that will be remembered long after he has left the White House was his idea of injecting disinfectants...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 16, 2020
The news that Health Canada has approved gene therapy Luxturna to treat blindness couldn’t come at a better time, as October is Blindness Awareness Month. You don’t have to look far to find other high impact research on blindness happening right here in Toronto,...
by Stacey Johnson | Aug 26, 2020
Finally, COVID-19 is no longer the only topic dominating the news cycle, although it took several months before mainstream media felt they could move away from covering a global pandemic that was likely affecting every person on the planet. In some ways it was a...
by Samantha Yammine | Apr 2, 2020
On most days, scientific discoveries are not cover stories or even top headlines. That hasn’t been the case since COVID-19 hit our collective consciousness. We are being inundated with science news, which would be great under different circumstances. But communicating...
by Jovana Drinjakovic | Mar 26, 2020
Earlier this month, Chinese media reported that doctors in Yunnan cured a patient from coronavirus with a stem cell transplant. But did they really and do stem cells actually hold promise against the new virus wreaking havoc across the world? The global pandemic has...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 28, 2020
I am going to take a guess that the teen romance movie Five Feet Apart, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse, introduced many people to cystic fibrosis (CF). Certainly that was the case for my teenage daughter. I learned about CF through television ads, “back...
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