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Seeds of collaboration

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Academic and government labs in the Chicago area are combining forces to reel in a host of large collaborative research projects — and tens of millions of dollars in funding. Paul Smaglik sums up.

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Smaglik, P. Seeds of collaboration. Nature 461, 1158–1159 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7267-1158a

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