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Indian bioscience: The anti-bureaucrat

K. VijayRaghavan is determined to cut through red tape and build up biological science in India.

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Mandavilli, A. Indian bioscience: The anti-bureaucrat. Nature 521, 148–150 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/521148a

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