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Outcry at scale of inheritance project

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NIH launches multi-million-dollar epigenomics programme.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) handed out the first payments in a multi-million-dollar project to explore epigenomics last month. But some researchers are voicing concerns about the scientific and economic justification for this latest 'big biology' venture.

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