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Nature 421, 777 (20 February 2003) | doi:10.1038/421777b

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Windfall spurs rare Israeli–Palestinian research effort

David Adam

Most collaborations between Israeli and Palestinian scientists have fallen victim to the upsurge of violence that has disrupted the region in recent years. But one surviving partnership — an investigation of the hereditary basis of deafness among people in the region — last month received a welcome boost: a donation of US$100,000 from a $1-million prize scooped by geneticists John Sulston, Sydney Brenner and Robert Waterston.