He also developed a large biotech park near Hyderabad in partnership with the Andhra Pradesh government, according to a Tata statement.

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James Thomson, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, turned to Geron, a biotech firm in Menlo Park, Calif.

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This biotech in a sleepy office park may hold the key to better crops, more efficient biofuels and drugs to cure the most elusive diseases.

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