Commentary

Funding drought hits experimentally based South African researchers and their graduate students

Nicola Illing
South African Journal of Science | Vol 108, No 3/4 | a1161 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajs.v108i3/4.1161 | © 2012 Nicola Illing | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 05 March 2012 | Published: 02 April 2012

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Nicola Illing, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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