Steady philanthropic support, new federal funding and increased commercial interest are mixing in the United States to create a large and growing number of opportunities for a new breed of multidisciplinary researcher, says Virginia Gewin.
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Virginia Gewin is a freelance science writer in Corvallis, Oregon.
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Gewin, V. Biomedicine meets engineering. Nature 425, 324–325 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj6955-324a
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