St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto have made new discoveries about the basic workings of endothelial cells that could lead to a diagnostic test for the serious kidney disease known as hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) and a possible treatment. Read More
Dr. Mitchell Albert, newly recruited Scientist at the Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute (TBRRI) and Research Chair and Professor of Chemistry at Lakehead University, recently published a paper reporting an innovative new technology for imaging cerebral activity in the brain: hyperpolarized (HP) xenon MRI. Read More
Dr. Kym Boycott, a researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, used next-generation sequencing to identify a new gene that causes Joubert Syndrome in a Canadian population. These findings were published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. Read More