Home - Innovation Toronto

This unassuming material is capable of capturing or releasing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in response to moisture swings.

Pulling carbon dioxide out of the air using moisture

A more efficient way to capture fresh water from the air

Bringing transformative potential to agriculture with a natural technology for ‘dimming’ genes

Staving off coral reef collapse via a new technique

LEGACY DISCOVERIES

Nagoya Institute of Technology

Drought-resistant plant genes could play a significant role in bioengineering

Diamonds, nanotubes find common ground in graphene

Developing new therapeutic drugs for osteoporosis and other bone degenerative diseases

University of Vienna

The Dwindling Stock of Antibiotics, and What to Do About It

Nano-dwarves turn tumor assassins

New Approach to Water Desalination Could Lead to Small, Portable Units for Disaster Sites or Remote Locations

Portal boxes let you reach inside the screen

Blocking coronavirus infections using an engineered virus?

Nearly 5 Million Asthmatics Worldwide Could Benefit From Antifungal Therapy

Tracking your personal metabolism with a low-cost respiratory sensor

Benjamin Sumlin, PhD, a senior scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, blows into a device designed by researchers at the university. The device — a breath test that uses a biosensor — could become a tool for use in doctors’ offices to quickly diagnose people infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.

FINALLY! A breath test that rapidly detects the COVID-19 virus in less than a minute

Is it right to waste helium on party balloons?

Video analysis: Detecting text every which way

RECENTLY UPDATED

Fudan University

University of Chicago Medical Center

University of Münster (WWU)

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

University of Padua (UNIPD)

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

University of Vermont (UVM)

University of Sussex

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

University of Pittsburgh

University of Wollongong

University of New South Wales (UNSW)

King Abdulaziz University

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

Kyung Hee University

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Structures and mechanism of action of Comp-NPs for the diagnosis by imaging and treatment of tumors by multimodal photodynamic therapy and immunotherapy. a) Chemical structures of a polymer incorporating a chromophore for imaging upon irradiation at 808?nm (P1) or a photosensitizer for PDT upon irradiation at 650?nm (P2). b) Self-assembly of the polymers into the nanoparticles NP1 and NP2. The theranostic nanoparticle formulation Comp-NPs is generated by mixing NP1 and NP2. c) Biological mechanism of action of Comp-NPs by combined photodynamic therapy and immunotherapy. Credit: Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40826-5

New nanoparticles mean that even undetected metastases can be treated

Photo Credit Hopp et al. Scenarios involving different moral categories elicited different patterns of neural activity.

Do distinct moral categories have an underlying neurologic basis?

Hydrogen engine test and development CREDIT Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM)

Newly arrived: A 2-liter class hydrogen-fueled engine (a passenger car hydrogen engine)

Flasks containing the electricity-producing E. coli. Credit: Jamani Caillet (EPFL)

Energy generating bacteria could revolutionize both waste management and energy production

A glove made of a material designed at Rice University that kills coronaviruses with heat without burning users’ skin. (Photo by Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University)

A new material for PPE packs deadly heat for viruses on its outer surface while staying cool on the reverse side

Drinking water from hot summer air