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Africa: Health Research Network Gets Cash Injection
SciDev.Net, 29 October 2012
An African network on hereditary disease genomics has received a grant of US$38 million to undertake research on the genetics of infections. Read more »
Africa: Health Researchers Get Cash Injection
An African network will undertake nine research projects focusing on the study of genomics and the environmental causes of disease like diabetes and tuberculosis in 22 countries.
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