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Policy: NIH plans to enhance reproducibility

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Francis S. Collins and Lawrence A. Tabak discuss initiatives that the US National Institutes of Health is exploring to restore the self-correcting nature of preclinical research.

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  1. Francis S. Collins is director and Lawrence A. Tabak is principal deputy director of the US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.,

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