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. 2005 Feb;6(2):103-7.
doi: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400338.

Scientists for a better world

Emmanuel G Reynaud  1
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Scientists for a better world

Emmanuel G Reynaud. EMBO Rep. 2005 Feb.

Abstract

Science and technology could solve some of the developing world's most pressing problems. Individual scientists, by some modest efforts, could help as well.

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A happy Soninké girl in the village of Khabou in Mauritania after the opening ceremony of the Khabou Healthcare Center. (Image courtesy of Jeremy Simpson, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.)
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Teaching laboratory in an Albanian University. Teachers recycled bottles from home as vials and flasks.
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Dr Reynaud and his Malian colleague Ousmane Karembeu during a workshop in the Malian village of Tafarciga, 2004.
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