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Nature 449, 264-265 (20 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449264b; Published online 19 September 2007

Florida courts German life-sciences institute

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Max Planck lab goes Stateside.

Germany's Max Planck Society is to open its first non-European institute in Florida. On 11 September, the state's Palm Beach County commission voted to spend $87 million over the next 10 years building a Max Planck Institute adjacent to the planned site of Scripps Florida on the Jupiter campus of Florida Atlantic University.