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BY Shawn Micallef   November 04, 2009 21:11

The MaRS Discovery District on College Street between Elizabeth and University is one of those places in which the people employed there likely have a hard time explaining to their parents exactly what they do. Though the “Medical and Related Sciences” is meant to connect science and technology to business, most of us civilians relate it to the restoration of the former Toronto General Hospital that was the site of Banting and Best’s insulin discovery in 1922. The most dramatic changes are not out front but inside the doors where a vast public atrium marks the transition between new and old, complete with an underground passage to the present-day hospital.

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