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Nature 441, 150 (11 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441150a; Published online 10 May 2006
Medical council funds both clinical and basic research
Colin Blakemore1
- Medical Research Council, 20 Park Crescent, London W1B 1AL, UK
Your Editorial "Brown's budget briefing" (Nature 440, 581; 2006) implies that the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) is responsible only for basic biomedical research. In fact, MRC scientists invented randomized clinical trial methodology in the 1940s, and the MRC remains the largest UK public funder of trials.
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