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Published online 26 November 2008 | Nature 456, 441-442 (2008) | doi:10.1038/456441a

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Argentina: The come back

Argentina's government has pledged to reverse a decades-long scientific brain drain. Rex Dalton reports.

In September 2007, with a wind of change already in the air, about 40 people arrived at Argentina's New York consulate for an unusual meeting. Nearly all of them were Argentinian expatriate scientists, now conducting research abroad.

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