A high-tech laboratory with a stem cell research facility will come up in Salt Lake, West Bengal within the next two years. Authorities of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology declared today that they will build the research facility on their proposed Salt Lake campus. CSIR has already acquired land at Salt Lake and the green signal has been received from the higher authorities in New Delhi. The centre will be equipped with the most modern equipment to carry out the stem cell research. The laboratory will also be tailor-made for complicated proteonic and protein research . At the golden jubilee celebration of the institute today, Prof Siddhartha Roy, the director of IICB, said . "It will have a sophisticated electron microscope, a large animal house and other state-of-the-art equipment to make it one of the best centres in India.'