The Mato Grosso Foundation, a research centre set up by the farmers, produces disease-resistant seeds.

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Studies into the gel by the American Population Council's centre for Biological Research are being funded by the foundation set up by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

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The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation is working with 30 drugs, up from none in 2000, and just recruited a cancer-drug executive from Bayer to help run its effort.

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He took voluntary retirement from his job in 2006 and set up an NGO - Public Cause Research Foundation - to work full time to promote transparency in government and to create awareness about the Right to Information movement.

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The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is funding or cofunding approximately 50 trials in Type 1 diabetes, up from 5 in 2000.

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Lichtblau, chief executive of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation in New York, agrees that Chinese demand is helping to drive up the price of crude oil worldwide.

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According to research by the MacArthur Foundation, 65 percent of students starting grade school today will end up doing jobs that have not yet been invented.

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