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Published online 12 December 2007 | Nature 450, 926-927 (2007) | doi:10.1038/450926a

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London to host ambitious research hub

UK Medical Research Council heads for King's Cross.

The announcement last week that Europe's largest medical-research facility is to be built in central London has been largely welcomed by Britain's biomedical community, which hopes that the centre will accelerate the translational research — so beloved by policy-makers — that brings discoveries from the lab to patients. But the process has ruffled a few scientists' feathers.

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