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- Received September 23, 2024
- Revision received October 1, 2024
- Accepted October 6, 2024
- Published online October 22, 2024.
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Copyright © 2024 Born This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.
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Author contributions: R.T.B. wrote the paper.
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The author declares no competing financial interests.
This article was based on teaching materials developed by the author for the “Center for Rigor” (C4R) consortium funded by METER award 5UE5NS128294 from NIH/NINDS. I thank my colleagues on Team HMS, Ella Batty, Tari Tan, and Xiuqi Li, for early brainstorming sessions and continued feedback. Ariel Hairston supplied useful background on mouse ID numbers. Shai Silberberg, Robert Calin-Jageman, and Ella Batty provided helpful comments on earlier versions of the manuscript.
METER Award 5UE5NS128294 from NIH/NINDS.
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