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Bioscience in the sun

Nature volume 446, pages 1112–1113 (2007)Cite this article

Flush with funds, Florida is enjoying a state-backed bioscience boom, says Gene Russo.

It's hard to imagine a more affable tour guide than Bart Chernow. A newcomer to the University of Miami's growing medical school, the vice-president for special programmes and resource strategy seems genuinely smitten with the place. Showing off the school's lush courtyards and new facilities, including a 35,000-square-metre clinical centre that opened in January and a 16,700-square-metre biomedical research institute due to open next year, he stops to pick up a few bits of rubbish from an otherwise spotless pavement. He's both booster and caretaker.

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