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Nature 389, 535 (9 October 1997) | doi:10.1038/39157

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Asia-Pacific forum backs life science network

David Swinbanks

A move by life scientists in the Asia-Pacific region to form a network to promote biotechnology and biomedical research has won strong political endorsement from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum (see Nature 388, 3; 1997).At a meeting of APEC's working group on industrial science and technology in Singapore last week, a motion by South Korea to support the network won backing from eight APEC members: Japan, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Taiwan.