The UK government's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is to provide pound 8.5 million (US12.75 dollar million) to help to set up multi-disciplinary centres and to update equipment in structural biology research, in which it says Britain is now second only to the United States. The funds will be released over three years, and are being allocated in response to a review by the research council of structural biology research, published last week. This warns that the United Kingdom could lose its pre-eminent position in the discipline without greater collaboration between universities, and between universities and industry.
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