Not too many years from now and not too far from Washington, D.C., HHMI plans to open what some are calling "the Bell Labs of biology."
  Officially announced on February 1, 2001, the initiative is intended to create a free-ranging environment in which chemists, physicists, computer scientists and other specialists can collaborate with biologists. In a state-of-the-art facility equipped with ultra-advanced research tools, they will be able—even encouraged—to attack much more than one class of diseases or set of research problems.
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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
July 2001, pages 10-15.
©2001 Howard Hughes Medical Institute