San Francisco: baywatch
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The biotech industry originated in Bay Area in 1972, with the intervention of recombinant DNA by Stanley Cohen from Stanford University and Herbert Boyer of the University of California, San Francisco. There is a need for massive investment in interdisciplinary science to bring together biologists, mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers in the same setting for the further progress of biotech industry.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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Northern exposure
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The collaborations between the universities of the north of England aim to transform the region into a globally competitive science center. The Northwest Regional Development Agency has awarded 6 million pound (US$11 million) grant for the alliance, which could create hundreds of jobs and attract millions of pound in additional research funds.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Rising star Northern England
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Biomanufacturing, new academic buildings, industrial facilities and incubators are new revolutionary areas in England. North England plans to build its own version of the southeast's 'golden triangle' stretching between Cambridge, Oxford and London is discussed.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2003
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