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A Fix For Gender-Bias In Animal Research

Submitted by Henrietta Dale on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 15:15
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There's been a male tilt to biomedical research for a long time.

The National Institutes of Health is trying to change that and is looking to bring gender balance all the way down to the earliest stages of research. As a condition of NIH funding, researchers will now have to include female and male animals in their biomedical studies.

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