(Opens in new window) October 20, 2020 Brighter World To measure the severity of COVID-19, researchers create a tool that can pull an elusive marker from human blood Researchers at McMaster University and SQI Diagnostics have created a surface that repels every other element of human blood except the critical cytokine, opening a timely window for understanding the progress of COVID-19 in individual patients.
October 14, 2020 Microscopic bone discovery holds promise for implants and bone diseases The team of researchers has found that bone mineral can form in clusters in addition to forming within or around collagen fibrils.
(Opens in new window) October 8, 2020 Brighter World Hand-held device lets patients monitor their own blood for cancer biomarkers Researchers at McMaster and Brock universities have created the prototype for a hand-held device to measure a biomarker for cancer, paving the way for home-based cancer monitoring and to improve access to diagnostic testing.
(Opens in new window) October 6, 2020 AUTOLINE TV In the media: Canada Develops EV Technology, Advanced Mobility & The Talent Needed To Do It McMaster's Saeid Habibi joins Autoline to discuss electric vehicles.
September 30, 2020 Drew Higgins recognized for outstanding contributions to nanotechnology research Higgins’ research group focuses on the development of nanomaterials into sustainable electro-chemical energy storage and conversion technologies.
September 29, 2020 McMaster researchers collaborate on N95 respirator made and approved in Canada The Can95 Respirator is manufactured in collaboration with B.C.-based Vitacore Industries and researchers at McMaster’s Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment Materials.
(Opens in new window) September 29, 2020 Brighter World Researchers create artificial lung to support newborns in respiratory distress The device, designed to be connected to a newborn’s umbilical cord, uses the existing power of the heart to drive blood through channels of a fine membrane whose structure resembles the lining of the lungs.
(Opens in new window) September 28, 2020 GLOBAL NEWS In the media: B.C. facility partners with McMaster Engineering to produce N95-equivalent masks A team of engineers, scientists and manufacturers from private industry and McMaster University have successfully created an N95 respirator made and approved for sale in Canada.
September 23, 2020 Simulating virus spread risk and campus reopening using network science Zoe Li and Wael El-Dakhakhni share the latest on their research project which digitally models cities to inform decision-makers in their reopening plans amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
September 14, 2020 In the media: How the pandemic has driven us to up our game in research and teaching Just as cholera gave rise to modern sanitation and the Spanish flu spawned public health, the battle to overcome COVID-19 will inevitably yield new and beneficial knowledge, writes Ishwar K. Puri.
September 11, 2020 McMaster part of new academia-industry partnership discovering materials using artificial intelligence The Alliance for AI-Accelerated Materials Discovery (A3MD) aims to support a suite of projects to accelerate the materials discovery process in Canada, with applications from renewable energy to smartphones.
(Opens in new window) September 10, 2020 Brighter World McMaster researchers receive provincial support for COVID-19 research Two McMaster researchers have received almost $700,000 in funding from the Province of Ontario to pursue projects that will help the province respond to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
