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Scientist Gets Research Donations From Crowd Funding

What do you do when you're a scientist and you have no job and no money for your research? If you're Ethan Perlstein, you try crowd funding. He raised $25,000 to investigate where the drug methamphetamine is stored in the brain.

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Joe Palca is a science correspondent for NPR.

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