“Once you’ve seen the iWALK hands-free crutch, you can’t unsee it,” says iWALKFree President Brad Hunter.

With the goal of enhancing—and even saving—people’s lives by offering quick, accurate detection of infectious diseases, bioLytical Laboratories Inc., of Richmond, B.C., makes and markets the INSTI® HIV-1/2 Antibody Test and other infectious diseases tests. This HIV test is backed by regulatory approvals from around the world, including the U.S. FDA, Health Canada, and the European CE mark.

StressMarq Biosciences Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Victoria, British Columbia that is responsible for creating some of the tools that have enabled researchers around the world to make several groundbreaking drug discoveries, particularly in the neurodegenerative disease space.

Robotic surgery has been around in one form or another for about 40 years, with the earliest case being the Arthrobot, a voice-controlled positioning robot for orthopaedic procedures in Vancouver in 1985, according to The Medical Post.