Obama launches $100 million BRAIN initiative to beat India, China

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Washington, April 3 (IANS) Saying that he wanted the next job-creating discoveries to happen not in India or China, but the US, President Barack Obama has unveiled a $100 million initiative to unlock the "enormous mystery" of the human brain. "I don't want the next job-creating discoveries to happen in China or India or Germany. I want them to happen right here, in the United States of America," the president said Tuesday in an event in the East Room of the White House. "And that's part of ...

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