What do glaucoma, oil sands tailings ponds and solar cells have in common? They all appear in the resumé of Dr. Vikramaditya Yadav, MCIC, a chemical engineering professor whose pursuit of bio-inspired tools...
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Read More >>Early in his career at McMaster University Medical Centre in Hamilton, Ont., while on his way to the cafeteria for coffee, Justin Nodwell regularly walked past the unit for premature...
Read More >>The biotechnology research facility Anandia Laboratories is situated in a three-storey building at an undisclosed location...
Read More >>The British Columbia Coroners Service Death Review Panel’s report on drug overdose deaths, released last month, was grim and to the point. “The clearest...
Read More >>Chemical engineering professor Pedro Pereira-Almao and chemical engineer Luis Alejandro Coy are part of a University of Calgary team...
Read More >>Watch any New York City cop drama, from Law & Order to Blue Bloods, and you will see what filmmakers call an “establishing” shot.
Read More >>Samantha Smith of the University of Toronto is devising new catalysts and ligands to enhance the creation of chemicals in industry and the pharmaceutical sector. Samantha Smith sees many similarities...
Read More >>David Zechel of Queen’s University. Is it possible for chemists to make the perfect molecule? David Zechel, associate professor at Queen’s University Department of Chemistry in Kingston, Ont., says there...
Read More >>At the Newfoundland and Labrador Boreal Ecosystem Latitudinal Transect (NL-BELT) more than two dozen scientists and graduate students...
Read More >>Hewers of wood and drawers of water is the oft-repeated narrative used to describe Canada’s historical reliance on natural resources. It is true that Canada has been, and continues to...
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