Singapore wants you: the future-friendly city-state has an offer bioscientists can't refuse: unrestricted research, top-notch equipment, and limitless funds. (Just leave your chewing gum at home.)
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The Singapore government is investing more than $2 billion into research hoping to attract leaders in therapeutic cloning, drug discovery, cancer research and other areas of bioscience in order to bolster the economy. In exchange for funding, the researchers are required to become on-call consultants and work with local scientists on various problems.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2004
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Beating back the next pandemic
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Richard Webby, virologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, speaks about the next pandemic after SAARS. Webby and his colleagues worry not about cinematic killers like Ebola but something that starts with the sniffles and ends with respiratory failure.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2004
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When mutant microbes attack
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A book by immunologist Elinor Levy and writer Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Mutant Germs Threatens Us All, ?warns about ?new microbes. Several types are identified and described.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2003
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