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Published online 17 October 2007 | Nature 449, 760-761 (2007) | doi:10.1038/449760a
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French agency head resigns in cancer row
Lawsuit over screening test pits researcher against her own firm.
The resignation on 8 October of Christian Bréchot, director-general of the French medical research agency, INSERM, is the latest and highest-profile fallout of a bitter conflict about new technologies for screening cancer cells. The dispute pits Bréchot's wife, Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot, an INSERM oncologist, against the current management of Metagenex, a company the couple founded in 2001.
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