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The Ministry of Health and Welfare selects Johnson & Johnson’s JLABS to operate the country’s global accelerator platform. JLABS will engage with various local incubators and collaborators in the startup ecosystem to offer venture development programs, stimulate employment and encourage commercialization to enhance the global competitiveness of Korea’s life sciences sector.

Costa Rica revises its biotech regulatory framework to ease restrictions on gene editing and other new breeding techniques. Experts say a banana variety resistant to yield-reducing fungal diseases sigatoka and Fusarium wilt could be the first genome-edited product commercialized in Costa Rica later this year.

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Biotech news from around the world.
Nat Biotechnol 42, 544 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02216-0

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