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Article: Suitors From Around The World Try To Get In The Biotech Game.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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PHILADELPHIA - The Pennsylvania Convention Center was constructed around the Reading Terminal Headhouse, which was the nerve center for the Reading Railroad and also served as passenger station when it opened in 1893.
It seems fitting that what was once the brain trust for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co. is home to BIO 2005: The industry these days is a lot like a train, barreling around the world, smoke pouring from the stacks, dropping off biotechnology to increasingly farther reaches.
The day started gray here but by mid-morning the sun had broken up the clouds and the temperature rose to the mid-70s - comfortable ...