This has been a quite a week for my family. We sold our house of 18 years and will be moving into the heart of the city of Toronto in the next two months. As a “Baby Boomer” this is a downsizing exercise and an opportunity for renewal. It is also giving us the ability to r

The acronym CD comes up a lot in science and technology. For those who remember them CDs or compact discs represented the primary media for music recordings from the 1980s until the rise of MP3 technology. Cd also stands for circular dicrhoism, a spectroscopic measure of light absorpt

The United States Navy has revealed that its research laboratory is developing a technology that converts carbon dioxide in seawater and combines it with the hydrogen (seawater is hydrogen and oxygen with lots of dissolved salts and minerals) into jet fuel. The fuel that navy jets use

When we think of nanoparticles we often think of carbon nanotubes. But the truth is the world of nanomaterials encompasses everything from metals to lipids and polymers. And biomedical researchers are using DNA and RNA to build nanoparticles aimed at genes that are responsible for can

Some Basic Facts About Cancer When the genes in normal (somatic) cells mutate cell behaviour may change over time leading to cancer. Mutations are a normal part of the life of a cell. That’s because when cells divide they replicate their DNA but imperfectly. In a previous blog w

Image-guided therapy has revolutionized medicine in the latter part of the 20th century and into these first two decades of the 21st. The operating room, once the exclusive domain of surgeons, is today a very different world. Radiologists, oncologists, cardiologists, nephrologists, lu