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Award mints millionaire biologists
A team of entrepreneurs has awarded its first round of $3 million “Breakthrough” prizes in biology and medicine. The winners were already celebrities in scientific circles, but one goal of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is to make them household names.
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