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Reinventing an industry

Two years after a radical change that brought India's patent laws into line with international trading rules, the country's drug makers are taking a new direction. Apoorva Mandavilli reports.

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Reinventing an industry. Nature 445, 138–139 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/445138a

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