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Correspondence
Nature 398, 657 (22 April 1999) | doi:10.1038/19405
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Hand over your clones or lose your reputation
See associated Correspondence: Taylor, Nature 399, 195 (May 1999)
Mark Tester1
- Plant Sciences Department, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
Noel Harris is right to protest the refusal of many researchers to respond to requests for clones, especially having signed away their right not to do so by publishing in journals such as Nature (Nature 398, 102; 1999). But, rather than 'outing' such workers, it is much more effective simply to clone the gene yourself and then do better work, faster, than those who tried to slow you down (driven by the incentive of revenge?
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