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The Nation - News from May 12, 1986

Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced the selection of six universities for a $60-million biology research program designed to merge the experimental approaches of physics and biomedicine. The program of structural biology research will enable scientists to use new techniques to accelerate studies to “determine the biochemical and genetic makeup of life,” said Dr. Donald Frederickson, president of the institute in Bethesda, Md. Among those chosen for the program is the University of California, San Francisco.

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