Hong Kong seeks secrets of Chinese medicine
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Hong Kong is intending to create the foremost center for the scientific study of Chinese traditional medicines. An Institute of Chinese Medicine is to be founded for the analysis and commercial exploitation of traditional folk remedies.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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Japan speeds up mission to unravel genetic diseases
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Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) will use its own sealed-card technology to accelerate research into genetic diseases. RIKEN's new facility in Tokyo will map single-nucleotide polymorphisms.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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