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With so many shale gas reserves available, major energy companies around the world are racing to start drilling. This carries some big environmental risks, but the upside is too great to ignore. Shale gas could one day lower fuel prices,…
University of Toronto spinoff company Interface Biologics Inc. has announced the signing of an evaluation and exclusive license option agreement with Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s largest integrated provider of dialysis products and services. Under the agreement, Fresenius Medical Care…
Flight-testing is scheduled to begin in 2011 on a morphed wing prototype for unmanned air vehicles using in-built shape memory alloy actuators that deform the shape of the wing when heated. The prototype is being developed by MIE on behalf…
Automatic Identification System Satellite 1 (AISSat-1) was successfully launched on Monday, July 12 from Sriharikota, India. AISSat-1 is a ship detection satellite built by the UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) for the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment. The satellite houses an…
Professor Axel Guenther (MIE, IBBME) and colleagues have developed a microfluidic platform on which fragile blood vessels can be fixed, allowing the factors that promote and sustain cardiovascular diseases to be studied. Microvascular structure and function are currently studied using either an…
Canadian importers, particularly those of children’s toys and imitation jewellery, should be extra-vigilant when purchasing from China. Lured by China’s intensely fragmented manufacturing sector, where thousands of small operators outbid each other with low per-unit costs, Canadian companies have been faced with recalls when…
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