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Wisconsin’s bioscience industry is “sizable and growing,” and Madison is a significant hub in several specialty areas, a report on biotech in the U.S. said.

Wisconsin was one of 12 states to gain at least 1,000 jobs in the biotech and life sciences fi eld between 2007 and 2012, according to the biennial Battelle/BIO report on the bioscience industry in the U.S. The study was released Tuesday at the international BIO conference in San Diego.

It said Wisconsin had nearly 31,800 jobs and nearly 1,400 businesses in the bioscience industry in 2012, an 8.2 percent increase in employment in the field since 2007.