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On the recordApril 1, 2014
the worst thing you can do, I think, to biomedical research is to create an area of uncertainty, of ups and down, of a roller coaster.
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Francis Collins
Pennsylvania

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Collins emphasizes the negative impact of funding uncertainty on biomedical research.

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