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Nature 439, 769 (16 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439769a; Published online 15 February 2006
Biomedicine to sell itself as a local hero
Erika Check
Lobbyists for biomedical science are changing tactics in an attempt to reverse what they see as a worrying decline in funding. As well as talking generally about the benefits of biomedical research, they plan to tailor their arguments to local economic issues, close to lawmakers' hearts.
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