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Can commercial protection be good for research?

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It's unscientific to let market forces dictate a change in the way science is carried out.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, B3H 4H7, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Maureen. A. O'Malley, Andrew J. Roger & W. Ford Doolittle

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O'Malley, M., Roger, A. & Doolittle, W. Can commercial protection be good for research?. Nature 419, 111 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/419111a

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