On May 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the ...

The government is putting money into a new kind of vaccine that could work against different types of viruses with just one ...

By Brett Kelman Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory. Tovar, 32, grew up poor and was the first in ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is planning to freeze the flow of funds to institutions outside of the U.S., ...

The administration’s position released Thursday sprang from Trump’s executive order calling for the federal government not to ...

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Researchers, clinicians and disability rights advocates are dismayed by RFK Jr.'s new autism study. Many view it as a big ...

Research at the University of Connecticut is endangered as federal funding freezes threaten the education of the next generation of researchers, a computational biology professor at UConn said.

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Former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli and other scientists discussed the impact of reduced funding on cancer research and ...

While a new NIH policy introduces higher financial stakes and places compliance responsibility firmly with universities, it ...