An innovative US National Institutes of Health programme aims to expose junior scientists to different career paths.
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08 September 2015
An earlier version of this article stated that BEST had offered career training to about 10,000 graduate students and 600 postdocs since its launch. In fact, at least 4,000 postdocs have benefited.
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Smaglik, P. Internships: Mind wide open. Nature 525, 147–148 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7567-147a
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