COPD is forgotten killer, says University of Toronto professor
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will kill more women in Canada this year than breast cancer, says a University of Toronto researcher.... ...In a paper published in the June 2004 issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, U of T medical professor Kenneth R. Chapman says women may be more predisposed to develop COPD, a permanent narrowing of the breathing tubes, because of their smaller airwa...NPS Pharma and VIMAC Ventures locate at MaRS, a major new research and enterprise center in Toronto
TORONTO May 17, 2004 Salt Lake City-based NPS Pharmaceuticals and Boston-based VIMAC Ventures announced today that they plan to locate key business and research facilities to the new MaRS (Medical and Related Sciences) Discovery District biosciences research and commercialization hub in downtown Toronto. These firms have selected MaRS as the ideal global destination to pursue research and comm...University of Toronto scientists light a path for new nerve cells
Scientists at the University of Toronto are taking regenerative medicine to a new dimension with a process for guiding nerve cells that could someday help reconnect severed nerve endings. ... ...Molly Shoichet, a professor of chemical engineering and applied chemistry at the Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME), has devised a new method that helps guide cell migration and...University of Toronto professor turns hemp into auto parts
If Mohini Sain has his way, cars of the future may be fitted with tough, durable and completely biodegradable bumpers made of hemp.... ...Sain, a professor in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Forestry and Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, creates biocomposites from processed plant fibres. His latest research, published in the August issue of Materials Research Innova...World Congress on Huntington's Disease to meet in Toronto, August 16-19, 2003
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada) -- Huntington's disease (HD) researchers, clinicians, and members of the HD community from around the world will convene August 16-19 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for the World Congress on Huntington's Disease. A scientific program will feature presentations on the genetics and mechanisms of HD, as well as recent discoveries and experimental treatments. Research clinicia...Cancer scientists to be honored by AACR during the organizations annual meeting in Toronto
Scientists credited with some of the major recent breakthroughs in cancer research -- from basic studies into the complex nature of cancer formation to clinical applications that already are improving patient care and survival -- are being honored this year by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)....... These awards, along with lectures by the winners, will be presented during the...Toronto General Hospital to be only Canadian site in first-ever genetic study of anorexia nervosa
Toronto, March 6 -Toronto General Hospital researchers have been selected as the only Canadian hospital in the largest genetic study of anorexia nervosa ever conducted.... ...The National Institute of Mental Health-funded study is a five-year, $10 million (US) project, led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. It brings together 11 groups of researchers from North America and Europe (10...University of Toronto professor finds key protein in fight against plant disease
A University of Toronto botanist has identified a protein that ultimately could provide chemical-free ways to protect crops from disease. ...... "Finding this protein, called DIR1, could help make it possible to genetically engineer crops that resist disease-causing organisms," says Robin Cameron, a professor of botany at U of T and the senior investigator of the study, which appears in the Sept....University of Toronto researchers get to the heart of heart failure
Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University Health Network have identified two genes that play critical roles in heart function - one that contributes to heart failure and one that protects against it.... ..."This finding is really amazing because it opens up new avenues for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases and heart failure," says Professor Josef Penninger of U of T's med...Orgin of mysterious subterranean gases identified, says University of Toronto researcher
Evidence of gases similar to those that may have played a part in the formation of the earliest life on the planet has been found by a University of Toronto geochemist....... However, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, a professor in the department of geology and lead researcher of the study published in the April 4 iss...Movement without senses coded into neurons, says University of Toronto researcher
An animal's ability to move - like the kicking of a developing baby or the crawling and walking of insects - is intrinsic, not dependent on sensory stimulation, says a University of Toronto neurobiologist....... "All animals, from worms to humans, have rhythmic movements that underlie locomotion," says Max Suster, a post-doctoral fellow at U of T at Mississauga and lead author of a paper in the...Water quality was issue in ancient Rome, says University of Toronto scholar
Can the great technological feats of the early Romans still inform urban planning today? University of Toronto Professor Christer Bruun of classics says they can in the area of water conservation. ... ... Bruun, who has been studying the ancient water systems of Italy and the Roman empire in the eras spanning 300 BC to the 1600s, says the many aqueducts built to transport water to Rome were t...University Of Toronto team discovers salt tolerance gene in plants
.The isolation of a gene that confers salt tolerance in plants could lead to.improved farming productivity in the Canadian prairies and many other areas of.the world where crops are compromised by saline irrigation water, according to a.study in the August 20 issue of Science. . .The gene encodes a transport protein in plant cells whose activity allows plants.to grow even in highly saline condit.... Three-dimensional living bone created by University of Toronto.researchers could one day replace conventional bone grafting techniques. . The bone is made by growing human cells throughout a new type of.biodegradable polymeric foam invented by biomaterials professor John Davies,.chemical engineering professor Molly Shoichet and doctoral student Chantal Holy. .When implanted to fi...