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Biotechnology and the UN's Millennium Development Goals

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Funding was provided primarily by the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund and Genome Canada through the Ontario Genomics Institute, with matching partners including GlaxoSmithKline, International Development Research Centre, Merck, Sun Life Financial, the McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine and the University of Toronto. P.A.S. is supported by a Distinguished Investigator award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

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    Tara Acharya, Abdallah S Daar & Peter A Singer

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Acharya, T., Daar, A. & Singer, P. Biotechnology and the UN's Millennium Development Goals. Nat Biotechnol 21, 1434–1436 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1203-1434

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