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Nature 416, 15 (7 March 2002) | doi:10.1038/416015a

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Curtain has fallen on hopes of legal bioprospecting

Joshua Rosenthal1

  1. Division of International Training and Research, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA

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Local communities, too, could have benefited from better health care and conservation.

Your News Feature "The curtain falls" (Nature 414, 685; 2001) about the termination of the International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG) in Chiapas, Mexico, was an excellent analysis of the complex issues that brought this innovative research and development project to an unfortunate end. However, there are three misinterpretations in the article which we, as members of the US Interagency Technical Advisory Group to the ICBGs, would like to correct.