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Bound for Boston

With its top academic institutions, Boston has long been a Mecca for biotechnology companies. But the demand for more academic input into industrial science is luring top drug companies there too, says Corie Lok.

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    Lok, C. Bound for Boston. Nature 441, 780–781 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7094-780a

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