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April 20, 2006
Singapore Becoming a Biotech Mecca
CHICAGO (AP) -- Singapore's siren song is growing increasingly more irresistible for scientists, especially stem cell researchers who feel stifled by the U.S. government's restrictions on their field.
Two prominent California scientists are the latest to defect to the Asian city-state, announcing earlier this month that they, too, had fallen for its glittering acres of new laboratories outfitted with the latest gizmos.
They weren't the first defections, and Singapore officials at the Biotechnology Organization's annual convention in Chicago this week promise they won't be the last.
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16696
Posted by paba7 at April 20, 2006 05:46 PM