A long journey to reproducible results

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Replicating our work took four years and 100,000 worms but brought surprising discoveries, explain Gordon J. Lithgow, Monica Driscoll and Patrick Phillips.

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  1. a geneticist at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, USA

    Gordon J. Lithgow

  2. a developmental biologist at Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA

    Monica Driscoll

  3. an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

    Patrick Phillips

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  1. Gordon J. Lithgow
  2. Monica Driscoll
  3. Patrick Phillips

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Lithgow, G., Driscoll, M. & Phillips, P. A long journey to reproducible results. Nature 548, 387–388 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/548387a

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