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NIH, FDA plan to reduce animal testing draws mixed reactions among scientists
As the Trump administration reshapes biomedicine, it wants to change how scientists test drug safety: animal research.
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NIH Launches First Agency-Wide Plan for Autoimmune Disease Research
The 5-year strategy aims to accelerate diagnosis, prevention, and treatment for the millions living with autoimmune diseases ...
NIH defends use of ‘deadly’ experiments on cats
While anti-animal testing groups condemn "deadly" dog and cat studies as morally wrong, the NIH defended certain experiments as "well-justified and responsible." ...
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Court Strikes Down NIH's Unlawful Termination of Research Grants on Topics Including DEI and Gender Identity
In a sweeping rebuke, a court ruled that NIH’s actions targeting research involving "disfavored" topics and populations were ...
Trump Administration Changes at NIH, EPA, NASA, NSF Spark Internal Dissent
The federal government is full of scientists who lend their expertise to key decisions about our food, medicines, environment ...
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Kennedy's mRNA Moves Anger MAHA Allies; Winning Back NIH Grants; Start-Up Games HSAs
Mary Talley Bowden, MD, founder of Americans for Health Freedom, an advocacy group that has lobbied against mRNA shots, ...
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NIH to Limit AI Use, Cap P.I. Grant Applications at 6 per Year
The National Institutes of Health says its new policy comes after the agency “recently observed instances of Principal ...
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Basic science publications have been falling for a decade. NIH budget cut would likely accelerate the decline
The number of basic science papers published by NIH grant recipients has been falling since 2013, when the agency’s budget was cut by 5%.
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The NIH BRAIN Initiative’s impacts in systems and computational neuroscience and team-scale research 2014–2023
The BRAIN Circuits Program of the NIH BRAIN Initiative has impacted how fundamental discovery in integrative systems neuroscience is investigated, commensurate with the complexity to address ...