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An experimental "farm" takes shape

News from Boston's medical and scientific community

July 5, 2005

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Gerald M. Rubin has mixed emotions when he walks the 689-acre campus in rural Virginia where the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is building a $500 million haven for scientific research. The director of this ambitious experiment, a Boston native and MIT grad, said he's excited to see the fruit of four years of hard work, ''but I'm also thinking, 'Boy, ... (Full article: 673 words)

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