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Could AI Help You Quit an Addiction?

U of T researchers are developing a chatbot to help people stop smoking. One day, it might offer therapy, too Read More

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Tremors of the Heart

How AI could help doctors predict cardiac problems in critically ill children Read More

Prof. Alexandra Gillespie and PhD students examine an ancient text

Hidden Tales of Ancient Books

U of T researchers are using advanced technologies to reveal new insights about texts that are hundreds of years old Read More

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A New Way to Monitor Heart Patients

“Lab on a chip” technology will reduce travel expenses and improve care for those living in remote communities Read More

An elderly man is selecting an option on a screen in the centre of a robot with a human face

The Robots Are Coming

They’re already common in manufacturing. Soon, they’ll be almost everywhere Read More

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Three Moments from Fall 2021

Testing out new technologies – and collecting an old one Read More

Jessica Burgner Kahrs working on a robot in a lab

Robots Are Taking on New Shapes

How a slender, snake-like device could give doctors new ways to save lives Read More

Ian McGilvray and Gary Bader standing off-centre, with Sonya MacParland sitting in a chair in front of them, all wearing lab coats and safety glasses. McGilvray is in the centre of the photo, leaning against a table with glass beakers and an open laptop.

Mapping the Human Body, One Cell at a Time

U of T scientists have created a cell-by-cell map of the human liver that could increase the success of transplant surgery and lead to new treatments for liver disease Read More

Close up picture of a model of a human heart created with a 3-D printer

Pumped Up

These 3-D printers create perfect models of life-sized human hearts, spines and other body parts Read More

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Tiny Robots, and the Future of Drug Delivery

Microscopic machines may soon swim through our bodies, delivering cancer drugs to tumours and assisting with difficult surgeries Read More

Dr. Joseph Cafazzo holding a mobile device showing the Medly app

Healing Hearts at Home

Apps such as Medly are expected to reduce hospital admission rates for heart patients while also helping them recover Read More

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A Cut Above

A “black box” for the operating room is leading to improved training for physicians and better knowledge of surgical errors Read More

Healthy City

How can we improve the health of some of the city's most vulnerable residents? Read More

Liu and Zhu’s tracheal intubation guide system.

A Life-Saving Innovation

Recent grads win engineering design award for a low-cost medical device that will help keep patients breathing Read More

Prof. Matt Ratto holds a conventional prosthetic socket (left) and one his lab printed.

A Foot in Two Worlds

3-D printing is creating new opportunities – and raising intriguing questions – as digital and physical realms meld Read More

Intelligent Clothing

Architecture grad student Stacie Vos has developed a "smart" shirt that can detect germs and protect its wearer from them Read More

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Fighting Tooth Decay

A new way of peering inside teeth could find lesions before they become cavities and eliminate the need for “drilling and filling” Read More

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All Clear

Surveillance and surgery could both get a boost from a new kind of video camera that can focus on near and distant objects at the same time Read More

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The Lunchtime Cancer Test

BlackBerry-sized device developed at U of T can identify cancer type and severity in 30 minutes Read More

Blood Work

Portable device would offer hospitals a quicker way to test patients for infectious diseases Read More

Grist for the Mill

Medicine wasn't always so easy to swallow Read More

The Sixth Age

The sixth age shifts into the lean and slippered Pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side Read More