Where should the drug industry go to find new ideas? In the first of two features, Alison Abbott asked if the future lies in systems biology -- a field that attempts to piece together 'everything'. In this, the second feature, David Cyranoski looks at drug companies' attraction to China.
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David Cyranoski is Nature's Asia Pacific correspondent.
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Cyranoski, D. Pharmaceutical futures: Made in China?. Nature 455, 1168–1170 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4551168a
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