Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

NAHA, Japan - Sydney Brenner, a British biologist and Nobel laureate named as president of the planned Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, at a news conference in Onna, Okinawa on April 6. A groundbreaking ceremony was held later in the day to mark the start of construction of the institute's main campus in Onna, scheduled to open around 2012. (Kyodo)

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