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A vision for the future: Can Britain become a biotech superpower?

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The Human Body Is Unbelievably Complex

There's still so much about life sciences that we just don't know. The human body is unbelievably complex, and there's a lot of really, really basic research that is probably beyond the ability of an individual company to produce products. For example, at the laboratory melecular biology in my constituency, which is funded by the government, they discovered monoclonal anti bodies. Which is now an example of a really, really fundamental research which is now available for all researches across the planet. But it's been problematic hasn't it persuading the nch s to open up that data and sare it with researchers?

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