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‘An exciting, inspirational and team-focused community’: Professor Lindsey Fiddes joins BME

Professor Craig Simmons (BME, MIE), left, and his collaborators have developed a new way to mature lab-grown heart cells so that they more closely mimic adult human heart tissue. (photo by Tim Fraser, KITE Studio)

U of T researchers improve maturity of lab-grown heart cells for disease modelling

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Freshwater mussel protein offers new source of inspiration for medical-grade glues

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Alumnus Lyndon Chan hopes to boost political engagement with Parlawatch, an online tool that scrapes official transcripts from Question Period and uses natural language processing to generate daily summaries. (Photo courtesy: Lyndon Chan)

Startup led by U of T alumni uses AI to help Canadians track parliamentary proceedings

Nightingale.ai, an AI-enabled platform that enables physiotherapists and their patients to connect remotely, is one of five winners of Hatchery Demo Day 2021. (Photo courtesy: Nightingale.ai)

Five startups to watch from U of T Engineering’s virtual Hatchery Demo Day 2021

Professor George Eleftheriades (ECE) achieved a practical mechanism for ‘full-duplex nonreciprocity,’ a property in metamaterials that allows for manipulation of both incoming and reflective beams of light. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

New metamaterial with unusual reflective property could boost your Wi-Fi signal

Pepper is a socially interactive robot used by a team in the Autonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Lab at U of T Engineering to study persuasion and authority in robot-human interactions. (Photo: Liz Do)

Humanoid robots that behave with less authority are more persuasive