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Central America: Panama's big ambition

Researchers in Panama suffered under a dictatorship and were overshadowed by the United States. Now the country is attempting a scientific renaissance.

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Rex Dalton is a writer based in San Diego, California.

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Dalton, R. Central America: Panama's big ambition. Nature 469, 462–463 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/469462a

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