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Nature 441, 20-21 (4 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441020a; Published online 3 May 2006

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It's a postdoc's life

Jacqueline Ruttimann1

  1. Jacqueline Ruttimann is an intern in Nature's Washington office.

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Does the respected US National Institutes of Health meet the needs of young postdoc researchers? Jacqueline Ruttimann investigates.

Place yourself, for a moment, in the lab coat of a US postdoctoral fellow. You've just spent four to seven years working on your graduate-school dissertation, but the journey is not yet complete.