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Life sciences: Cluster with added lustre

By Andrew Bolger

Published: November 4 2009 02:55 | Last updated: November 4 2009 02:55

Scotland’s life science sector was given a boost with the recent official opening of a new building at Livingston by Quintiles Transnational that will create 150 jobs by 2011.

Quintiles, a US-based biopharmaceuticals service company, has spent more than £9.5m ($15.6m) developing an 80,000 sq ft laboratory that will be used for clinical trials involving patients from all over Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

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