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BME professor Leo Chou creates DNA nanostructures that can serve as a platform to deliver instructions to a body's immune cells in a way that would elicit an effective response towards a disease. His team has developed a new way to visualize 3D nanostructures made of human DNA. (Photo: the Connaught Fund Committee)

‘DNA origami’ may bring researchers one step closer to a cancer vaccine

November 20, 2023

Professor Leo Chou (BME) has developed a new way to visualize 3D nanostructures made of human DNA under the microscope

A machine is used to fill bottles with donor human breast milk.

How AI could help optimize nutrient consistency in donated human breast milk

November 20, 2023

A team of researchers led by Professor Timothy Chan (MIE) has designed an optimization model that improves nutritional content and decreases the time it takes to create milk bank recipes by 60%

Professor Daniel Franklin (BME) holds up two devices that make up the wearable cardiovascular monitoring system. (Photo: Qin Dai)

New wearable medical device aims to redefine cardiovascular monitoring

November 15, 2023

Professor Daniel Franklin (BME) is collaborating with researchers from Northwestern University on the device

Research to improve eye disease treatments wins 2023 NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize

November 1, 2023

Professor Frank Gu (ChemE), a member of the winning team, is engineering nanomedicines to delay or prevent irreversible blindness caused by glaucoma

The Self-Driving Lab for Human Organ Mimicry will use organoids and organs-on-chips – a well plate is pictured here – to allow researchers to move potential therapeutics to human clinical trials more rapidly. (Photo by Rick Lu)

U of T ‘self-driving lab’ to focus on next-gen human tissue models

October 27, 2023

The Self-Driving Laboratory for Human Organ Mimicry is one of six self-driving labs launched by the Acceleration Consortium to drive research across a range of fields

From left to right: Professor Jonathan Rocheleau (BME) and BME PhD candidate Cindy Bui.

U of T Engineering researchers unveil sensor for real-time cellular analysis in living zebrafish embryos

October 11, 2023

Researchers led by Professor Jonathan Rocheleau (BME) share their findings in a new paper published in Science Advances

Left to right: Matthew Nguyen (BME PhD candidate) and Professor Warren Chan (BME found that about 45% of nanoparticles that accumulate in tumours end up exiting them. (Photos: submitted)

U of T researchers challenge long-standing theory guiding nanoparticle treatment of tumours

September 28, 2023

Study could explain why some cancer treatments are struggling in clinical trials

ECE PhD candidate Yan Li (pictured), along with his supervisor Professor Willy Wong, built an online simulator showing the progression of glaucoma. The simulator is based on a data-driven model they developed that takes into consideration the physiological mechanism of the eye. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

Online simulator could help glaucoma patients and doctors better understand disease progression

September 15, 2023

Professor Willy Wong and grad student Yan Li (both ECE) used a data-driven model that takes into account how the eye functions to simulate the progression of glaucoma

LaShawn Murray stands outside between two buildings.

IBET Momentum Fellow LaShawn Murray aims to use human factors engineering to advance health equity for marginalized populations

September 13, 2023

PhD candidate will examine the role of automation in primary care

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