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Published online 5 September 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1084

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Chemical screening centers get funding boost

Nine centres in the United States receive $280 million to hunt for useful biochemicals.

Nine academic institutes in the United States have been selected to host an ambitious and controversial chemical biology initiative. The institutes will form a network that aims to bring to academia the chemical-screening programmes that were once considered the exclusive domain of pharmaceutical companies.

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