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Taking the profit out of biomedical research tools

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A National Institutes of Health proposal will restrict the licensing of Federally funded biomedical research tools for commercial gain.

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Flores, M. Taking the profit out of biomedical research tools. Nat Biotechnol 17, 819–820 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/11774

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