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Digital brain fitness products are being designed to sharpen memory. "Baycrest and MaRS launched a company, Cogniciti, that aims to develop brain fitness products based on scientific principles introduced by the Rotman team.

Premier Dalton McGuinty designed the trade mission to Israel in part as a means of understanding Israel's success in nurturing innovation and attracting venture capital. Of 38 companies and organizations taking part in Ontario's six-day life sciences trade mission to Israel, only two are from Ottawa, and only one is a local business. MaRS Innovation, an agency devoted to commercializing research from 14 Toronto academic institutions, has strengthened linkages in Toronto.

Profound Medical Inc, a MaRS client hopes to improve quality of life for men with prostate cancer by developing a faster, more precise treatment aimed at reducing side effects. Profound Medical won the $200,000 Premier's Catalyst Award for a start-up company with the best innovation. Avenir Medical Inc, a MaRS Client was named Ontario's Next Top Entrepreneur at the conference of the Ontario Centres of Excellence.

An organization supporting start-ups in Moncton: focussing specifically on technology and life sciences.

MaRS Discovery District  announced that its Phase II construction and it is expected to be completed by 2013.

Baycrest, one of the world's leading cognitive science institutes announced today it has created a new company with MaRS, Canada's premiere innovation centre, to develop and market brain fitness products to help adults extend their memory and cognitive abilities longer in the lifespan. Baycrest will put its substantial cognitive science reputation behind a new for-profit company - Cogniciti - that will produce a suite of products, games and training protocols grounded in 20 years of aging brain research at Baycrest. Dec 2, 2009

Canadians are growing older, and so are the workers that will care for them. Right now, seniors represent 13.9 percent of all Canadians, but by 2030, they will represent 25 percent of the total population. BNN speaks to Jane Barratt, secretary general, International Federation on Ageing. Nov 27, 2009

Dr. Buzz Aldrin is delivering a keynote address as part of The Ontario Innovation Summit: The Business of Aging, programmed and hosted by MaRS Discovery District in conjunction with the Province of Ontario. Nov 30, 2009

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.