12+ hour, 11+ min ago  (411+ words) With International Women's Day recently marked on March 8, we take this opportunity to highlight a pioneer from our department's history: Eleanor Hill Venning, a Montreal-born chemist whose work changed how we understand hormones and their role in health and pregnancy....

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (841+ words) Abstract: "Severe traumatic fractures frequently require open surgical interventions, where current fixation and regenerative strategies often lack adaptability to patient-specific needs. These procedures are also associated with a substantial risk of post-operative infection, highlighting the need for materials that can…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (625+ words) Abstract: Soft electronic materials offer a powerful route toward electronics that can seamlessly integrate with living systems and dynamic, mechanically active environments. This seminar will present recent progress in flexible, stretchable, and self-healing electronic materials, with a particular focus on…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (591+ words) Abstract: The Metabolism-First hypothesis for the origin of life posits that organic chemical reaction networks originated in geochemistry and became more complex through catalytic feedback effects. This process would lead to increasing autonomy from the original environment, ultimately resulting in…...