Summary:
- The article reports that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears to have archived a policy that required researchers to include female animals in preclinical studies, in addition to male animals.
- The policy was implemented in 2016 to address the historical bias in biomedical research towards using male animals and cells, which can lead to findings that do not apply to women.
- The article suggests that the archiving of this policy could signal a shift away from the NIH's efforts to improve the representation of women in scientific research, which could have negative implications for the validity and applicability of research findings.