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Biotech boom

Nature volume 436, pages 480–483 (2005)Cite this article

India's thriving biotechnology industry is threatened by a change in the law. Will the current high levels of investment be enough to secure its future? K. S. Jayaraman finds out.

This August, pilgrims to Krishna's legendary birthplace will pass an imposing three-story structure of sandstone and glass. Inside, at The Centre for Genomic Applications (appropriately shortened to TCGA, the letters of the genetic alphabet), white-coated scientists are devoted to a god of a different kind. On the centre's first birthday in May 2005, scientists acquired a new Hewlett-Packard supercomputer, the fastest in India, worth a whopping US$2.2 million. Capable of four trillion operations a second, the computer places the centre among the ranks of international institutions such as the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Britain and the Institute for Molecular Science in Japan.

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