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Nature 589, 497 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00186-w

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  • Correction 28 January 2021: The item entitled ‘Francis Collins to stay on at NIH Under Biden’ erred in stating that Donald Trump extended Collins’s term as director in 2012. He did this in 2017.

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