The research made him think about diagnostic needs in other low-resource settings, and he created DFA to commercialize his research.

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Practice Application Briefs: developed for classroom teachers and other practitioners, these products provided specific examples derived from research findings that could be applied in practice settings.

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Developing a complicated procedure to purify stem cells for human trials was difficult at Scripps, because academic settings and government grants support basic research, not the applied-process development required for such targeted research, and Friedlander didn't want to go the typical venture-capital route.

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