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Texas-sized challenge

Houston's Texas Medical Center is a biomedical behemoth. But it's not immune to the souring economy, as Gene Russo finds out.

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Russo, G. Texas-sized challenge. Nature 459, 1022–1023 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7249-1022a

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