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Nature 422, 545 (10 April 2003) | doi:10.1038/422545a

Communication breakdown

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The UK Medical Research Council seems to have alienated a sizeable minority of the researchers that it supports. Building bridges with these disaffected individuals must be a top priority for the agency's next chief executive.

This should have been a golden year for Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC). Half a century ago, its scientists changed the face of biology.