Funding woes plague US biomedical researchers. But calls for more funding ignore the structural problems that push universities to produce too many scientists, argues Brian C. Martinson.
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Martinson, B. Universities and the money fix. Nature 449, 141–142 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449141a
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