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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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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