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Beijing

Center to boost health sciences

A research center with doctors from one of China's top hospitals and scientists from the country's top research organ, was set up in Beijing on Monday to enhance medical and health sciences. The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Hospital signed an agreement to establish the Health Sciences Research Center, which aims to be a national-level platform for life sciences and health research and an exemplary institution of transnational medicine.