Research

An international experiment with contributions from physicists at the University of Toronto is announcing results that could solve a long-standing puzzle in particle physics and may even turn the Standard Model on its head. The team has detected the first indication of oscillation from muon-type neutrinos to electron-type neutrinos. “Two other modes of neutrino oscillation [...]

Watching the recent events in the Middle East play out in the mainstream media, one might be inclined to believe that these evolutionary movements have sprung up overnight. “We have a lot of problems in the way the popular media frames and covers Islam and the Muslim world and the only cure to that, of [...]

An international team including researchers from the University of Toronto’s Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases has discovered new genetic clues on risk factors and biological causes of a rare neurodegenerative disease called progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). The study, which was led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, is [...]

Seven U of T researchers have won a total of $3.2 million in grants from the collaborative health research projects program (CHRP). Minister of State (Science and Technology) Gary Goodyear was on campus June 9 to announce $15 million in funding for 17 universities across Canada. U of T researchers won 21 per cent of [...]

The secret to preventing or reversing premature aging may be found in a DNA “off switch” that humans share with common yeast, according to new research from the University of Toronto. In a paper published in the journal Developmental Cell, Professor Karim Mekhail, of the Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, along [...]

What do you get when you cross a mass spectrometer with flow cytometry? Though it sounds like a joke that one scientist might tell another, it’s a real question posed by a group of researchers led by Scott Tanner of chemistry. The answer is “mass cytometry,” a radical new breakthrough in the detection of events [...]

New research published Online First and in an upcoming Lancet shows that, in Indian families in which the first child has been a girl, more and more parents are aborting their second child if prenatal testing shows it to be a girl, so they can ensure at least one child in their family will be [...]

Not allowed to advertise your booze or smokes on a billboard? That’s okay. Research shows online advertising works especially well in places with government ad bans. “If you want to regulate the offline world, you have to remember that people have access online too and you have to think about how that online world is [...]

Why isn’t knowledge transfer happening more often in companies spending money on it? Maybe it’s because their staff don’t always want to share. “We’ve had years of research in organizations about the benefits of knowledge-sharing but an important issue is the fact that people don’t necessarily want to share their knowledge,” said David Zweig, a [...]

The best medicine for a broken heart, it turns out, might not be time or chocolate or revenge or any of the cures commonly advanced in pop culture, but a peptide with the unlikely name QHREDGS. The researcher responsible for its discovery, Professor Milica Radisic of chemical engineering and applied chemistry and the Institute for [...]