by Samantha Payne | Jan 3, 2017
Most people have experienced being put to sleep for a surgical procedure, whether it is relatively minor like the removal of a tooth, or major heart surgery. In fact, every day 60 000 people will undergo general anesthesia in the U.S. You may have noticed a lot of...
by Hamideh Emrani | Dec 29, 2016
Professor Aaron Wheeler earned his PhD from Stanford University and, after a two-year postdoc fellowship at UCLA, joined the faculty of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. He has won numerous awards and honours for his work in the field of microfluidics and is the...
by Stacey Johnson | Dec 23, 2016
Our story begins in a wondrous land called Torona, far from the North Pole, where mythical creatures – half human, half reindeer – have dedicated their adult years to the admirable pursuit of helping to treat patients around the world with “regenerative medicines,”...
by Nicole Kuchinsky | Dec 21, 2016
On November 28 local and international leaders of the regenerative medicine (RM) community gathered at the MaRS Centre in Toronto for the first ever Medicine by Design (MbD) Symposium. The event marked the first year of the MbD program at the University of Toronto (U...
by Sara M. Nolte | Dec 5, 2016
On November 15th, my social media pages exploded with posts and comments regarding the latest news about how the gene-editing ‘CRISPR-Cas9’ technology had been used in the first human patient. The article, published by Nature, was entitled “CRISPR gene-editing tested...
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