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Published online 21 January 2009 | Nature 457, 362-363 (2009) | doi:10.1038/457362b

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Translational research in Berlin hits a roadblock

Accusations of funding mismanagement prompt collaboration to break up.

A historic biomedical research campus in former East Germany is retrenching after a prolonged political attack. Unproven accusations alleged that €15 million (US$20 million) of state money had flowed illegally into the private Helios hospital in the Berlin suburb of Buch.

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