Science

The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors?  Jackson Leslie: I’m in my fourth year. I specialize in Neuroscience, and I do a major in Fundamental Genetics. What is your research? Right now, I am doing research in Dr. McLaurin’s lab at Sunnybrook. My project looks at combinatorial therapies for Alzheimer’s disease—we […]

Upper-year students talk program selection, experiences, and advice.

Highlights include penis fencing and long-distance friendships

Neuralink’s controversial implantable brain-computer interface is commencing its clinical trials

The Strand: What year are you, and what are your majors?  Emilie Nero: My name is Emilie Nero. I am in fourth year now, and I’m doing a double major in Biology and Health and Disease. What is your research? We’ve all heard of microplastics and how they’re getting into very weird matrices. We’ve heard

“Don’t stop at five senses when you can install a sixth one,”—a DIY cyborg (probably)

UofT’s Trash Team and MealCare inspire change in community and campus

The Strand: What year are you, and what are your majors? Sara Ciganovic: I’m in fourth year, and I’m doing a pathobiology specialist. What is your research? My lab studies how the brain develops and the stem cells that are creating the brain using mice models. We’ve done a lot of sequencing analysis on the

The ghosts of your past trauma might be the methylation patterns on your DNA (amongst other things)

Did time feel different during the COVID-19 lockdowns? Can you remember? Although the lockdowns that resulted from the global pandemic may have felt neverending as we trekked through our ‘new normal,’ it seems now that it swept past us in a confusing, jumbled-up blur. In order to determine what has caused recollections of the lockdown