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Nature 441, 689 (8 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441689a; Published online 7 June 2006
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Merck is tapping into academic research in its hunt for drug candidates. Meredith Wadman reports on the company's latest deal with Harvard.
It's the stuff of academics' daydreams: do the science that opens a route to drugs for a common, debilitating and, so far, untreatable condition. Then have a megacompany swoop in and pay you handsomely for the privilege of — just maybe — turning your labours into a cure.
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