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Mobile's location in a research room starts to aid medical activities (7)

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I believe the answer is:

alabama

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'mobile's location' is the definition.
'Alabama' can be an answer for 'location' (Alabama is an example). I am not sure about the 'mobile's' bit.

'a research room starts to aid medical activities' is the wordplay.
'research room' becomes 'lab' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'starts to' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'aid medical activities' is 'ama'.
'a'+'lab'+'ama'='ALABAMA'

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for alabama that I've seen before include "US state west of Georgia" , "State of SE USA" , "Source of cotton" , "US state in the cotton belt" , "17th US state, joined 1819" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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