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Published online 9 July 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/454144a

When there's no room to grow

To maintain profits in the face of rising development costs and slow drug pipelines, big pharmaceutical firms are trying to cut back. Heidi Ledford examines how GlaxoSmithKline has tried to adapt.

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