When Patents Threaten Science

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Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research Program; the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy under award number DE-FG02-06ER64276; and an NSF grant, SES 0508321.
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Volume 314 | Issue 5804
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