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Information from patent office could aid replication

Nature volume 447, page 638 (2007)Cite this article

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Your News Feature 'The hard copy' (Nature 446, 485–486; 2007) accurately highlights the limited availability of information on stem-cell research methodologies — owing to competition among labs, the commercial value of such information and space restrictions in high-quality journals — which contributes to other labs' inability to replicate and verify the results.

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