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Nature 435, 397 (26 May 2005) | doi:10.1038/435397a; Published online 25 May 2005

NIH hints at ethics rule change

Emma Marris

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Owning biomedical stock may not be a problem after all.

Researchers who had threatened to walk away from top jobs at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) over tough ethical rules have now changed their minds.The scientists say they have been privately assured by NIH director Elias Zerhouni that they will not have to divest themselves of all their biomedical stock.