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The rise of ‘ARPA-everything’ and what it means for science

Science agencies such as ARPA-Health hope to replicate the success of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, but researchers question whether they will thrive.
  1. Jeff Tollefson
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US President Joe Biden’s administration wants to create a US$6.5-billion agency to accelerate innovations in health and medicine — and revealed new details about the unit last month1. Dubbed ARPA-Health (ARPA-H), it is the latest in a line of global science agencies now being modelled on the renowned US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), whose work a generation ago laid the foundation for the modern Internet.

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Nature 595, 483-484 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01878-z

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