…and better tools

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Want DNA results on demand? (Okay, okay, in an hour.) That’s no sweat for Spartan Bioscience: The Ottawa start-up has shrunk a whole lab into a four-inch-cubed device that can analyze a cheek swab for infectious diseases or drug resistance, and can even be used to test food and water safety.

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It might look like a sleek pen, but ODS Medical’s high-tech laser can suss out cancer in less than a second. Healthy and cancerous cells reflect light differently, and this Montreal-developed tool can identify both during braintumour surgery.

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It’s expected that by 2050,

152 million people worldwide will live with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Early detection is key to treatment, so Montreal’s Optina Diagnostics developed a simple eye scan that uses PET imaging and AI to catch key biomarkers of the disease.