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Neuroscience in China: Growth factor

Mu-ming Poo is nurturing a Shanghai neuroscience institute that offers a glimpse of his country's future as a bioscience superpower.

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David Cyranoski is Nature's Asia-Pacific correspondent.

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Cyranoski, D. Neuroscience in China: Growth factor. Nature 476, 22–24 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/476022a

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