Posts Tagged: research
On September 5, the Walter Curlook Materials Characterization & Processing Laboratory was opened and unveiled to members of the Curlook family and the U of T Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) community. Hosted by MSE Professor Uwe Erb – invited guests and…
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…
“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…
It’s been a decade since the Human Genome Project finished sequencing our genome, and everyone and their grandmother knows that gene expression controls critical biological processes. Genes encode proteins, and proteins are the building blocks of the human body. But…
A team of Toronto-based researchers may be one step closer to a ‘recipe’ for large-scale production of stem cells for use in research and therapy. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be of great value for medical research because they…
It’s an electrifying step forward for cardiac research. University of Toronto researchers have announced a new method of maturing human heart cells that simulates the natural growth environment of heart cells while applying electrical pulses to mimic the heart rate…
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