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    Prompted by challenges experienced during the pandemic and their ratification of the Nagoya protocol, South Korea has developed a plan for the management and utlization of biological resources.

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    Genomic medicine applies the power of genetic analysis to medicine, allowing treatments to be tailored to individual patients.

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    China’s pharmaceutical industry is increasingly well-placed to grow as it becomes more globally focussed through international partnerships, increasing innovation and bedding down recent regulatory change.

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    Traditional Chinese Medicine has been advanced by scientific techniques designed for western-style medicine.

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    Rare-earth elements are key to number of growing technologies, including hybrid cars and wind turbines.

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    An ancient tradition of food preparation, maintaining wellness of an aging population and growing interest in sustainability has sparked interest in food and its production, both within Japan and across the globe.

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    Japan, a steep, densely packed island that imports more than half its food, faces unique food security challenges.

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    Countries around the world are pouring research funding into how to make industrially useful products using microbes and plant cells.

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    In 2019, the Thai government launched the Genomics Thailand Initiative to sequence the genomes of 50,000 Thai people and build infrastructure to harness genomic information.

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