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David Lapointe writes:
``Stanford University has announced the recipients of the first Bio-X research grants, which will provide $3 million to each of 19 projects. The Bio-X program, supported by a $150 million donation from Netscape cofounder Jim Clark and a $60 million anonymous donation, will bring together scientists from every discipline to work on a wide range of problems. For example, a neurobiologist will work with an ophthamologist, a chemical engineer, and an electrical engineer on a project to restore sight by attaching a digital camera to a person's retinal cells. Other projects will involve human tissue engineering and the newly sequenced human genome. The Bio-X program will receive a home in 2003 when the $150 million Clark Center opens. The center will encourage interaction among scientists, researchers, and students from different areas. Interdisciplinary research such as this is catching on in universities across the country as new technology allows previously undreamed-of advances in science. Channing Robertson, chemical engineering professor and Bio-X committee member, says science is `sloping over the sides of the disciplines, and that's where the interesting stuff is going to happen.'''
Story at SiliconValley.com:
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/biox100500.htm
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kenya and east africa, help needed
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Sunday, February 9, 2003
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I hold an interest in biotechnology and i live in Africa , Nairobi in Kenya to be exact. I am sure there are many plants with certain special triats which would be useful for reasearch, found in Kenya. I was wondering if anyone has any contacts or useful information such as the names of any plants fungi animals fish amphibians.
Thank you in advance
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