WELCOMING BIOTECH WITH OPEN ARMS :The Scientist [2007-04-01]


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WELCOMING BIOTECH WITH OPEN ARMS In 1984, biotechnology was anything but a household word, especially in North Carolina. Nonetheless, a group of Tarheel visionaries saw the future as it might be and set about to make it happen. The North Carolina Biotechnology Center was created that year by the state legislature as the nation's first private, nonprofit organization to further research, economic development, and education in