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Nature 412, 361 (26 July 2001) | doi:10.1038/35086712
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Ripe opportunities for regional collaboration in east Asia
Abstract
East Asian collaboration in molecular biology could enhance the scientific viability of the region, but it requires more enthusiastic support from potential participants — particularly Japan.
Despite the flowering of scientific excellence in many east Asian countries in recent years, researchers in that part of the world in search of collaborators are often inclined to look right past each other to colleagues in the United States or Europe. The tendency persists despite the geographical convenience of local collaboration, the common scientific and cultural heritage of the region, and the knowledge that major institutions in the United States, in particular, are liable to treat collaborators from abroad as junior partners.
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