November 30, 2001

Aiming to Be a Life-Sciences Hub, Singapore Turns to National U.

By JEN LIN-LIU

Officials hope to lure students with better biotechnology facilities and courses

A throng of secondary-school students, dressed in uniforms and giggling and chatting in Mandarin Chinese and English interchangeably, follows a freshman down the gleaming white hallway of a science building at the National University of Singapore.

Once they've entered one of the laboratories, some of the students pay close attention as a graduate student gestures at a laminated poster and describes

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