Janine A. Clayton and Francis S. Collins unveil policies to ensure that preclinical research funded by the US National Institutes of Health considers females and males.
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Clayton, J., Collins, F. Policy: NIH to balance sex in cell and animal studies. Nature 509, 282–283 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/509282a
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