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Block funding has helped reduce administrative burden- please continue to prioritize this and similar policies.
As different phenotypes can be found due to genetic background, the NIH could encourage more rigorous research by not reducing funding to budget requests that entail this aim. Further an estimate of the cost of creating the same knock-out on another background could be surveyed and accepted as a standard.