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Peering from the Shadows: Stem Cell Research and the Quest for Regulation in Argentina

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Acknowledgements

This project was funded by the generous support of the Economic and Social Research Council, Responsive Grant No. RES-000-22-2678. The author also acknowledges the support of SCRIPT, the AHRC Centre for Research in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, and Innogen, ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics. The author would like to thank Prof. Graeme Laurie and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier drafts.

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Harmon, S.H.E. Peering from the Shadows: Stem Cell Research and the Quest for Regulation in Argentina. Stem Cell Rev and Rep 8, 640–646 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12015-011-9331-x

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