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Science 31 October 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5339, p. 792
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5339.792b
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News & Comment

GERMANY:
Public Acceptance Fuels Biotech Boom

Richard Stone

MUNICH--In the late 1980s, many Germans were so vehemently opposed to genetics and biotechnology that Munich University officials feared for the safety of staff at the Genzentrum, its major molecular biology lab. Adverse public opinion also led many German drug firms and agricultural biotech companies to carry out their research abroad. Today, however, the bulletproof glass shielding the director's office at the Genzentrum is a vestige of a bygone era, and the mood change is translating into a biotech boom.

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