The neighboring Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign are also involved in the project.

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Allied claims it has a new approach, imported from the U.K. The company has agreements with 31 U.S. universities and national labs, including powerhouses Harvard, Yale, the University of Michigan, most of the University of California schools and the national laboratories Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos, to periodically survey discoveries and pick a few to develop.

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