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Biotech Tide Rising in South Florida with Arrival of Large Research Facility.

By Marcia Heroux Pounds, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 23--With one of the largest research institutes getting ready to expand into Palm Beach County, existing bioscience firms in South Florida are positioning themselves for potentially greater business opportunities and the money to fund them.

South Florida's bioscience industry includes about 1,500 businesses that employ 25,000 people and generate $4 billion in sales, according to Enterprise Development Corp., a public-private partnership in Boca Raton that provid

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