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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe

From the Beatles to biologics – how Liverpool became a life science hotspot

An aerial view of a snow-covered Liverpool, including buildings in the life sciences hub and the city's port
As a major port, Liverpool has decades of experience with public health administration. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

Tucked away in the village of Leasowe, near Moreton on the Wirral peninsula west of Liverpool, the US pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is building a new £35m glass-clad laboratory building.

It is part of a growing life sciences cluster in and around Liverpool, one of the largest in Europe, and a leader in vaccine development and manufacture, as well as infectious disease research projects in the UK.

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