'Permissive culture'

The National Institutes of Health, with a budget of $28 billion, oversees research with a mission to extend healthy life and to reduce the burdens of illness and disability. The laboratories and offices of most NIH scientists are at the agencys woodsy, 300-acre headquarters in Bethesda, Md.

Tyrone Turner / For The Times /

The National Institutes of Health, with a budget of $28 billion, oversees research with a mission to extend healthy life and to reduce the burdens of illness and disability. The laboratories and offices of most NIH scientists are at the agencys woodsy, 300-acre headquarters in Bethesda, Md.

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