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Opinion: NIH must support broadly focused basic research

Allan C. Spradling
  1. aDepartment of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, MD 21218;
  2. bHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, MD 21218

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PNAS July 26, 2016 113 (30) 8340-8342; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610102113
Allan C. Spradling
aDepartment of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, MD 21218;
bHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, MD 21218
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vol. 113 no. 30 8340-8342
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610102113
PubMed: 
27466401

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published July 26, 2016.


Author Information

  1. Allan C. Spradlinga,b,1
  1. aDepartment of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, MD 21218;
  2. bHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, MD 21218

Footnotes

  • ↵1Email: spradling{at}ciwemb.edu.
  • Author contributions: A.C.S. wrote the paper.

  • Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • ↵*https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/mission-goals.

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