Biomedical researchers have long flirted with private foundations and wooed them into bankrolling their research, but today these relationships have become more complex. Through a series of interviews with scientists and the foundations that fund them, Nature reports on the trade-offs involved in the relationships between
scientists and a new breed of foundations that are focused on translational research. This News Feature on biomedical philanthropy, Love or money (Nature 447, 252-253; 2007), is free online.
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