August 21, 2022

Researchers create device to replicate conditions in blood vessels after grafts

Tohid Didar and Jeff Weitz had a solution, but they also had a problem. Didar, an associate professor of engineering and Weitz, a hematologist, professor of medicine and executive director of the Thrombosis & Atherosclerosis Research Institute, had collaborated to create a novel and highly promising material to improve the […]
August 20, 2022

New chemical biological tools to monitor Parkinson’s disease

Researchers are a step closer to understanding how Parkinson’s disease develops and progresses thanks to chemical biological tools developed at Simon Fraser University. New research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and spearheaded by SFU researchers Matthew Deen and Yanping Zhu, outlines new […]