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Those individuals and organizations who can envision what could be achieved by combining basic new technologies have an uphill climb when trying to bring different research groups together, especially if the labs are in different countries. Moreover, agencies that have an interest in funding mid-stage MNT development often have neither mandate nor method when it comes to directing funds for one project to project members who work in different labs that lie across international boundaries. Such cooperation is made more difficult by laws that, sometimes blindly, aim to tightly control such activity.