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Curtain has fallen on hopes of legal bioprospecting

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Other signatories to this letter: Flora Katz, Gordon Cragg, Yali Hallock, George Johnson, Linda Brady, Michael Gottlieb, Chris Tseng, Richard Hawks, Jamie Biswas National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Joann Roskoski, James Rodman, Elizabeth Lyons, Michael Willig National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, USA Carol Kramer-LeBlanc, Anne Bertinuson US Department of Agriculture, Washington DC, USA

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Rosenthal, J. Curtain has fallen on hopes of legal bioprospecting. Nature 416, 15 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/416015a

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