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Toronto is a globally competitive centre for groundbreaking basic and clinical research, with historical and current strengths in areas including new cancer therapeutics, stem cell research and development, genomics, bioinformatics, and the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools for every imaginable disease process.

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Express Scripts Inc., the big St. Louis pharmacy-benefit manager, is about to test an electronic pill container that issues a series of increasingly insistent reminders, in a national study among patient members. The GlowCap gives electronic reminders and collects data on habits. The container-actually a high-tech top for a standard pill bottle called a "GlowCap"-is equipped with a wireless transmitter that plugs into the wall. When it is time for a dose of medicine, the GlowCap emits a pulsing orange light

MaRS clients are featured in the Globe and Mail on the occasion of the announcement of MaRS' addition to the Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE). Clients included in the gallery of technology : Quantum Dental's Canarie System, a non-invasive dental technology; Xagenic, with an advanced STD detection; Sustainable Energy Technologies with their solar technology.