"Community is really the most important thing, " said Micah Kotch, director of incubator initiatives at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

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So understanding the process (glycosylation, to give its proper name) is an important task, and Robert Linhardt, of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, and his colleagues, hope to contribute by building an artificial Golgi apparatus.

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Today Americans often have more information than personal experience about current events, says Professor R Luke DuBois, director of New York University's Polytechnic Institute.

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