Research

University of Waterloo researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) set out to test the human eye’s ability to perceive one of the properties of quantum entanglement but quickly realized that the tool they created to test their theory had an immediate practical use.

The IQC researchers then teamed up with researchers from the School of Optometry and Vision Science to use their work to design a unique form of light that is visible to people with healthy eyes, but not to people whose eyesight is degenerating.

A new mechanism to greatly boost the immune defense system with a specific class of drugs may be the key to treating COVID-19 and other diseases or viruses, such as HIV and cancer.

The research is grounded in the discovery of a new mechanism that amplifies the reaction cycle of the human immune defense system.

Marni McVicar had no idea the project she helped design during a volunteer mission in the Philippines last November would now be a critical mode of transportation used to safely carry COVID-19 patients and supplies.

The 1984 Waterloo electrical engineering graduate spent two weeks in the Southeast Asian country with the Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO), a not-for-profit international economic development organization, working on an electric trike (e-trike).

With Stage 2 happening in most of Ontario, but not Toronto or the GTA, is there a concern that people will travel to areas that are re-opening earlier and contribute to a new wave on those areas?

We ask Professor 

While we continue to see the number of positive and recovered cases change across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a threat to everyone’s health and well-being. There’s a global race to produce a vaccine that will be effective in protecting us from the virus and perhaps be our best hope for ending the pandemic.

What is the current recommendation from Public Health about face masks?

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