Posts Tagged: research

Till & McCulloch Award Goes to IBBME’s Peter Zandstra

A Canadian technology that has the potential to boost the number of stem cells given to patients undergoing transplants of the blood-forming system has been recognized as the most influential stem cell research paper authored by a Canadian in the past…

Can Plants Teach Us How to Build Better Solar Cells?

What can we learn from plants about making the best use of the sun’s abundant energy? That’s the question underlying an ambitious new research project that has won $1 million in the 2012–13 Connaught Global Challenge funding competition. The project…

Bio-inspired Design May Lead to More Energy Efficient Windows

University of Toronto Engineering professor Ben Hatton (MSE) is turning to nature to find a way to make windows more energy efficient. In a recent article in Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells , Hatton and colleagues at Harvard University describe a…

Building Open-Source Science with the DropBot

“When it doesn’t really exist anywhere you have to build your own,” said Ryan Fobel (IBBME PhD candidate), who is the mastermind behind the DropBot, a ‘digital microfluidics’ research tool that may just spark a revolution in biomedical engineering research. According…
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