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This year, Mexico and Brazil debuted on the list of the top countries for academic research. How did they get there?
Guadalupe Virginia Nevárez-Moorillón, a microbiologist at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, says demographics are working in Mexico's favor. "Mexico is a country of young people," she says, and the number of enthusiastic students interested in science is on the rise. According to René Drucker-Colín, the vice chancellor for science of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, about 1,500 new PhDs graduated this year, compared to around 1,200 five years ago.
Yet Drucker-Colín says there's room for ...
