CRISPR gene editing should learn from the Slow Food movement, say Dal researchers Landon Getz and Graham Dellaire. Scientists must allow time for critical conversations and perfecting of techniques before rewriting the source code of humanity.

Volleyballers take fourth at nationals while the Tigers curling teams held strong at the midway point of their national tournament.

Courtney Baker and Julie Moore (Volleyball) are this week's Â鶹´«Ã½ MUSCLE MLK Athletes of the Week.

Ten of Dal's elite graduate students faced off in the finals of Dal's 3 Minute Thesis compeition, with Microbiology and Immunology PhD candidate Adrian Herod taking home the top prize for his presentation on salmonella and food safety.

Dr. David Anderson is more than just the dean of Â鶹´«Ã½ Medical School — he still maintains clinical practice in the school, seeing patients weekly as a hematologist.

Dal's ambitious redesign of its downtown Sexton Campus has been about more than new buildings and spaces. It's also involved a significant sustainability overhaul that's a possibility to receive Dal's highest-ever LEED rating. Take a closer look with video highlights and more.

For students looking to see if assistive technologies like voice-to-text and smart pens can help with their studies, the up-front costs can be prohibitive. That’s why Dal’s Student Accessibility Centre has established an assistive technology lending library, making these tools available for students to borrow free of charge.

Rapidly evolving digital technology enables hackers to more easily access and manipulate information across the internet, exposing a threat to democracy in Canada and elsewhere, said UK-based expert Carl Miller at a Dal-hosted forum last week.

In the next few years, there may be as many as 30 billion different devices connected to the Internet, including many everyday objects you find in your home. That poses major challenges for everything from security to reliability – challenges Computer Science prof Srini Sampalli and his team in the MYTech Lab are working to address.