Gary Schrobilgen has been awarded the prestigious Blaise Pascal Medal for his contributions to the advances of science in the field of chemistry.
As his former mentor and graduate supervisor Svante Pääbo receives the Nobel Prize for medicine, McMaster evolutionary geneticist Hendrik Poinar talks about the ways in which Pääbo fundamentally shaped his own groundbreaking research.
McMaster researchers have developed a way to coax bacteriophages into linking together and forming microscopic beads. Those beads can safely be applied to food and other materials to rid them of harmful pathogens.