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Researchers in Mexico, Malaysia and Brazil shed light on biotechnology grants from UN-affiliated funder
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For researchers in low and middle-income countries, funding to get projects off the ground can be hard to come by. So grants from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology offer a lifeline to those in the organisation’s 65 member states, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
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