The BALCO he referred to is the Bay Area lab that allegedly provided performance enhancers to a number of athletes.

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K. Venkatesh Prasad, senior technical leader for open innovation with Ford Research and Innovation, will travel from Michigan to the Bay Area regularly to organize the lab.

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An organisation called BioCurious recently opened a community biology lab in California's Bay Area.

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In a small lab in the San Francisco Bay Area biotech hub of Emeryville, scientists at a startup called Halotechnics are sifting through thousands of mixtures of molten salt.

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Finally, Google could continue creating jobs as it research, design, and manufacture the systems close to its current operations in Mountain View and the secret Google X Lab believed to be in the Bay Area, where the autonomous cars were developed.

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Mr. Basch moved the lab to the Navy Yard from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, in 2001.

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The designs were also inspired by Villareal's previous experiences in the Bay Area in the 1990s, when he worked in a research lab in Palo Alto and attended the Burning Man festival.

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