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UK’s Cambridge Tries to Catch Up With Younger, Innovative Peer

  • New initiative aims to promote UK city on the world stage
  • Kendall Square in Massachusetts is seen as a model for the UK
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Home to one of the world’s oldest universities and renowned for contributing to discoveries such as the structure of DNA, Cambridge, England has still been recently overshadowed by its Massachusetts namesake that spawned Moderna Inc.’s mRNA Covid-19 vaccine technology. Now, the UK city is trying to regain the limelight.