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...event presented an opportunity for biotech executives to talk with Reeves and other Cambridge leaders about the role of the industry in the city...
Reeves said the informal meeting facilitated collaboration between different biotech firms and people associated with the local universities...
...city's biotech firms are working with Cambridge's schools, initiating courses that relate to the field and stress the importance of science and math, in general...
...Biotech executives who were meeting with the mayor said there is a "sympathetic relationship" between the city and the industry. The presence of Harvard and MIT make the city a good incubator for fledgling biotech firms...
Researchers say America may be trading future knowledge for short-term political profit. The new approach, they fear, will dry up basic research, which has spawned entire segments of the national economy, including the biotech and computer industries. "What we're all worried about is that there will be less and less room to maneuver in basic research, the area that put us where we are," says Dr. Harold Varmus, a Nobel-prizewinning microbiologist from the University of California, San Francisco. "If we move our investment into some narrowly defined social contract, 10 years from now we will have nothing...