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Nature 410, 140-143 (8 March 2001) | doi:10.1038/35065828
Biomedical philanthropy, Silicon Valley style
Trisha Gura1
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Abstract
Entrepreneurs who made their fortunes in high technology are now giving money away to fund biomedical research. These new philanthropists are sending a breath of fresh air through the labs they support, says Trisha Gura.
In the early 1990s, Ben Barres wanted to explore a wild idea: could a long-ignored type of cell play a major role in building the brain's neural circuitry? At the time, most neurobiologists thought these glial cells provided little more than physical support for the brain's neurons.
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