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Rudolph, red noses and regeneration

Samantha Payne is a PhD student in the Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry department at the University of Toronto. She has previously investigated regeneration in a non-mammalian gecko model during an MSc program, and now currently combines stem cell biology...

Mending a hole in the heart

Among many interesting talks at this year’s Till and McCulloch Meetings in Toronto, Canada, there were a couple related to biomaterials, which I’d like to focus on. In the first talk, professor Milica Radisic, University of Toronto, talked about two recent...

You are my day, my night, and forever my spleen (?)

. For linguistics enthusiasts, you might find it curious that almost every language uses anatomical metaphors in everyday speech. For example, you may have heard the phrase: “that cost an arm and a leg” or “I’d give up a kidney to [fill in blank].” To those we love we...