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Science 4 October 1996:
Vol. 274. no. 5284, pp. 27 - 28
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5284.27
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News & Comment

Eliot Marshall, Andrew Lawler

Biomedical research scored a "100% win" on Capitol Hill, as one lobbyist says, in the massive 1997 appropriation bill that Congress passed last week. The new law gives the National Institutes of Health an increase of 6.9% and launches a new prostate cancer research effort in the Department of Defense. It also provides a surprise $4 million increase for the Advanced Technology Program, an industrial partnership program that Republican lawmakers once vowed to eliminate.




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