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Nature 416, 572 (11 April 2002) | doi:10.1038/416572a

Chinese institute is an innovation in theory

David Cyranoski

Interdisciplinary boundaries are rarely stricter than those that separate the 100-plus research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, home to some 40,000 of the country's researchers. But the academy is moving tentatively towards breaking that mould by setting up its first multidisciplinary institute.